Walter Butler of Polestown

Walter Butler of Polestown was High Sheriff of County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1483.

He was the second son of Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler.Lodge, John (1789). The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom, Vol IV. Dublin: James Moore, p. 19. His nephew Piers would become the 8th Earl of Ormond.Byrne, Frances John, et al (2002). A New History of Ireland, Volume 9. New York: Oxford University Press, pg 169. He was the father of Edmond Butler of Polestown.

See also Butler dynasty

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