Item 9 - Large notebook containing manuscript notes on Barry family history

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IE 2135 P20/1/9

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Large notebook containing manuscript notes on Barry family history

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  • [c. 1920s?] (Creation)

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174 pp.

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(fl. 1169-)

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The Sandville branch of the Barry family is descended from David Barry, who received a grant of land in county Limerick having saved the life of an Englishman during the 1641-42 war. Originally called Fryarstown, the name of the estate had been changed to Sandville by the time of the marriage of John Barry in 1804 to Mary O’Shaughnessy. Their eldest son, James, established himself at Bellevue, Croom, county Limerick, while the Sandville property passed to the third son, John. Following the latter’s death without issue in 1860, both properties passed to James Grene Barry (1841-1929), James’s eldest son.

The Leamlara branch of the family is often referred to as Standish Barry to distinguish it from the other Barry families in the area. The Leamlara estate near Carrigtwohill, county Cork, was granted to the Barrys at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion. A castle built on the property in the fourteenth century was utilised in the mid eighteenth century for the construction of Leamlara House. It remained the family seat until the death of Henry Standish Barry in 1945, when his two surviving daughters sold the property to the Irish Land Commission. Leamlara was the birthplace of Garrett Standish Barry, the first Catholic Member of the Parliament to be elected after the 1829 Emancipation Act.

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Large notebook containing extensive manuscript notes on Barry family history, including copies of leases, deeds of mortgage and other documents; a list of documents in the Public Record Office, Dublin, relating to the Barry family; and extracts from the Windele Mss. in Queen’s College Library, Cork, relating to the Roche family. Also pedigrees and pedigree notes relating to the families of Roche, O’Cahill, Haly, Brander of Pitgaveny, Southwell of Callow and Castlemattress, Hamilton of Kealagh, and Spenser of Kilcolman Castle. Reverse pages contain notes on the family finances, including the sale of the Leamlara estate in 1903; particulars of advances from trust funds to H. S. Barry; and accounts of estimated income. Also extensive accounts recording names of tenants and the size and value of their holdings, mainly in county Leitrim, and plans of and calculations relating to holdings mainly in counties Clare, Tipperary and Limerick. The latter material is probably related to James T. Barry, Solicitor, and the sale of his clients’ holdings under the Land Acts.

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  • English

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    Paper document in fragile condition. Use book cushion for support.

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    Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.h8vr-4443.

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    P20/10

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