School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Gráinne
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- Bishop Butler was the last of the Butler family, who had for generations lived in Shangarry (Ballingarry). The thought of being the last of a long honoured race troubled him unceasingly, until he decided to abandon his religion. He called himself Lord Dunboyne and soon after married a Protestant lady.
When he was dying he sought to make his peace with God, but his wife would not allow a priest to see him. A great friend of "Bishop Butler",(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Horan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockuragh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr T. Horan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockuragh, Co. Tipperary