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- 28 October 1908 (Creation)
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3 pp. (outsize)
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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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Typescript copy objection of Captain James Denis Lyons of Croom House, Croom, county Limerick, prepared by William Roche & Sons Solicitors, 20 Stephen’s Green North, Dublin, to the lands of Cappanahane [Cappanihane] and Cappananty being taken under the Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Act 1907. Also see P20/3/2/1/5.
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- Béarla
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Available digitally on the University of Limerick Digital Library at https://doi.org/10.34966/uldl.3tb0-vb42.