Barry

Burke's Extinct Peerage records the building of Barry's Court castle by Philip de Barry in 1206. This family was very prominent in county Cork in medieval times and held the titles Viscount Buttevant and Earl of Barrymore (from 1628). In 1668 Richard, Earl of Barrymore, was granted 9,698 acres mainly in the barony of Barrymore, county Cork. In the 17th century the Barrys built Castlelyons Castle on the site of an older castle and it was the main Irish residence of the Earls of Barrymore until accidentally burnt in 1771. James Barry (1667-1747) 4th Earl of Barrymore had four sons. The title eventually died out with the death of his great-randson, the 8th Earl of Barrymore, in 1824. The 4th Earl's fourth son John Smith Barry of Marbury in Cheshire married in 1746 Dorothy daughter and co heiress of Hugh Smith of Weald Hall, Essex and a granddaughter of Erasmus Smith. This couple inherited an estate in county Tipperary from the Smiths. They were the grandparents of John Smith Barry of Marbury and Fota, county Cork. The legal documents referred to in John T. Collins' article include reference to the sale of 10,000 acres of the Barrymore estate in 1806. An estate of 1,800 acres was leased to William O'Bryan by James Earl of Barrymore in 1703 and was advertised for sale in 1852 and 1855 as the estate of James Milner Barry.

Associated Families

Houses

Name	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Barryscourt	Barryscourt	Carrigtohill	Middleton	Carrigtohill 270	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W822 722 OS Sheet: 75 Discovery map: 81
Anngrove	Anngrove	Carrigtohill	Middleton	Carrigtohill 270	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W806 743 OS Sheet: 75 Discovery map: 81
Berry Hill	Kill St Anne South	Castlelyons	Fermoy	Castlelyons 138	Fermoy	Cork	OSI Ref: W836 935 OS Sheet: 45 Discovery map: 81
Buttevant Castle	Castleland	Buttevant	Mallow	Buttevant 237	Orrery and Kilmore	Cork	OSI Ref: R542 086 OS Sheet: 17 Discovery map: 73
Castle Lyons	Kill=saint-annes South	Castlelyones	Fermoy	Castlelyons	Barrymore	Cork	OSI Ref: W840926 OS Sheet: 45 Discovery map: 80

Archival sources

Pedigree book for Barry family of county Cork (Leader Collection); Irish Genealogical Research Society Library
Photostat copies of a rental of [the Barrymore] estate at Castlelyons, 1835-1837 & also of a deed re Lord Barrymore dated 1592. Ms 13,018; National Library of Ireland
Copies from Smith Barry Papers of rentals, valuations, accounts & correspondence re estates of Smith Barry family in Cos Louth, Limerick, Tipperary and Cork. Includes papers of Samuel Dickson, Cooks Court [London], land agent to the family in 1755. Also papers re Earl of Barrymore/Earl of Donegal estate in Co. Cork, inherited by Smith Barry family, 1702-1857. T3364 ; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Papers of Smith Barry family estates in Cheshire, London, Yorkshire and Huntingdon, includes family members' wills & brief reference to mortgages on Irish estate, 1596-1924. D2802; Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service
Chambers and Co., Northwich, Papers include Earl of Barrymore, Marbury Estate. Includes drafts of marriage settlements, family trusts, correspondence on estate, including mineral rights 1889-1926; papers on mortgage and sale of Irish Estate, 1871-1919; Tipperary Estate, rentals and accounts, 1854-78. DCN/72-77 ; Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), James Milner Barry, (Skahanagh), 26 July 1852, Vol 18 (6), MRGS 39/008, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), James Milner Barry, (Skahanagh & Coolquane), 2 Apr 1855, Vol 34 (28), MRGS 39/016, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland
Encumbered Estates’ Court Rentals (O’Brien), Swayne, Roberoe, Bartaletto, Moy, Monkman, (Skahanagh & Coolequane), 11 June 1858, Vol 52 (21), MRGS 39/025, (microfilm copy in NUIG) ; National Archives of Ireland

Contemporary printed sources

Modern printed sources

BURKE, Sir Bernard. ''A genealogical history of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire''. London: Harrison, 1883: 24-25
BENCE-JONES, Mark. ''A Guide to Irish Country Houses''. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 6 & 34
MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). ''Burke's Irish Family Records''. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 66-75
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). X, 2nd Series (1909), 334-373 (Buttevant)
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: BARRY, Rev E. Barrymore. VI, 2nd Series (1900), 193-209
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: Ó BUACHALLA, Liam. Tenant Farmers of the Barrymore Estate, 1768. LI, 2nd Series (1946), 31-40
''Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society''.: COLLINS, John T. Legal documents relating to Fermoy, Castlelyons and other parts of East Cork. LII, 2nd Series (1947), 178-185 & LIII, 2nd Series (1948), 13-18
DICKSON, David. ''Old World Colony: Cork and south Munster 1630-1830'' Cork: Cork University Press, 2005. : 78
MARSDEN, Simon & McLAREN, Duncan. . ''In ruins: the once great houses of Ireland''. Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1997. : 30-33 (Castle Lyons)
BLAKE, Tarquin. ''Abandoned mansions of Ireland''. Cork: Collins Press, 2010.: 46-53 (Buttevant Castle)