School: Dunboyne (roll number 15915)
- Location:
- Dunboyne, Co. Meath
- Teacher: N.F. Ó Donncha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0688, Page 072
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- The Dunboyne estate to Maynooth college under circumstances of the most unusual kind. John Butler, Lord Dunboyne studied for priesthood as a young man but owing to the loss of an eye his ordination was delayed until this canonical impediment had been removed by a dispensation from Rome. After some years he was appointed to the See of Cork over which he reigned as Bishop for twenty-three years. On the death of his nephew Pierce Butler eleventh Baron Dunboyne in the year 1785 Bishop Butler succeeded to the title and estates. Thereupon(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
