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- ↑ Butlers of Cahir - Thomas BUTLER (1° B. Cahir)
- ↑ Burke, Sir Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison & Sons, p. 96.
- ↑ Burke, John (1826). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Vol 1. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, p. 512.
- ↑ Cokayne, George Edward (1889). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 2. London: G. Bell and Sons, p. 103.
- ↑ Lodge, Edmund, "The genealogy of the existing British peerage with brief sketches of the family history of the nobility.", 1832, pg 159.
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