Hi Dathai,
I hardly know what to say. It is almost unbelievable. what a revelation
Yet it does not surprise me i have been trying to get to people who were actually at Shanbally Castle around this period.
I have recently found a whols section of a book about the Castle aand it's owners. Viscount Lismore.
And most were pretty wealthy Shanbally Castle Estate covered thousands of acres. there are somewhere some of the Estate records but when it was sold many were bunrt on the spot . Not passed to the new owners.
any way that is another story.
More to be done on this leg. I must go digest all this before doing anything else.
It is almost 10.00pm here and i doubt I will sleep very much tonight.
have followed up on the other info, printed off and saved. the file for tins part is just about bursting out of the folder. Now i just cannot thank you all enough for all of this.
I believe Lady butler is connected to the Viscount - cannot recall just how so will retrace that info.
Cheers

if there was a hug one I'd add that too.
Essnell