Walter Butler of Polestown

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Walter Butler of Polestown was High Sheriff of County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1483.{{cite book|author=George Dames Burtchaell|title=Genealogical memoirs of the members of Parliament for the county and city of Kilkenny|year=1888|publisher=Sealy, Bryers & Walker|page=27}}

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.