Thomas Butler, 6th Viscount Ikerrin (1683 – 7 March 1719) was an Irish nobleman, born in Kilkenny

Kilkenny

Kilkenny is a city and is the county town of the eponymous County Kilkenny in Ireland. It is situated on both banks of the River Nore in the province of Leinster, in the south-east of Ireland...

, Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 to James Butler, 3rd Viscount Ikerrin and Eleanor Redman. He was a descendant of John Butler of Clonamicklon

John Butler of Clonamicklon

John Butler of Clonamicklon , was the youngest son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick. In 1306 he moved north from Lismalin and established a junior branch of the family in the Slieveardagh Hills at Clonamicklon, County Tipperary....

. Thomas was a member of the clergy and Chaplain-General to the Army in Flanders. He married Margaret Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton of Bangor and Sophia Mordaunt.

Children

• James Butler, 7th Viscount Ikerrin (1714 – 20 October 1721), died at seven years of age
• Somerset Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick
  Somerset Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick
  Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick, PC , known as The Viscount Ikerrin from 1721 to 1744, was the son of Thomas Butler, 6th Viscount Ikerrin and Margaret Hamilton. He succeeded his brother James Butler as the 8th Viscount Ikerrin on 20 October 1721. Subsequently he was invested as a...
  
   (6 September 1718 – 15 April 1774), also the 8th Viscount Ikerrin, married Lady Juliana Boyle
  Juliana Butler, Countess of Carrick
  Juliana Butler , Countess of Carrick was an Irish peer born in Castlemartyr, Cork, Ireland to Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon and Lady Henrietta Boyle. On 18 May 1745 Lady Juliana married Somerset Hamilton Butler, 1st Earl of Carrick, son of Thomas Butler, 6th Viscount Ikerrin and Margaret Hamilton...