The title of Viscount Mountgarret was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1550. In 1794, the 12th Viscount was made Earl of Kilkenny, but this title became extinct with his death in 1846.
The Viscount bears the subsidiary titles of Baron Kells (1550) in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Mountgarret (1911) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, under which title the Viscounts sat in the House of Lords before 1999. The present peer is understood to be the likely heir to the ancient Earldom of Ormonde (created 1328) as well as the 16th century Earldom of Ossory, but has not proven the claim.
For his brother and heir, created Lord Ormonde of Llanthony at the coronation of George IV., the Irish marquessate was revived in 1825 and descended in the direct line.
The earls of Carrick (Ireland 1748), Viscounts Ikerrin (Ireland 1629), claim descent from a brother of the first Ormonde earl, while the viscounts Mountgarret (Ireland 1550) spring from a younger son of Piers, the Red Earl of Ossory.
The barony of Caher (Ireland 1543), created for Sir Thomas Butler of Chaier or Caher-down-Eske, a descendant in an illegitimate branch of the Butlers, fell into abeyance among heirs general on the death of the 2nd baron in 1560.
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