James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant

James de Barry, (1520 - 10 April 1581) 17th Baron Barry and 4th Viscount Buttevant, was the son of Richard de Barry, of Rathbarry in Barry Roe, and Isabel FitzGerald, a daughter of Sir James FitzGerald of Leixlip, who was a son of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare. His father Richard was a son of James de Barry, Lord of Ibane, and Elane MacCarthy of Muskerry.

Carbery in Tudor times

He married Lady Ellen MacCarthy Reagh, an illegitimate daughter of Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh, 10th Prince of Carbery.

The marriage to Lady Ellen proved especially successful for Barry, allowing his branch of the family, Barry Roe, to claim the titles from the formerly leading branch. From this marriage would descend the Earls of Barrymore.

Issue

Children by Ellen MacCarthy Reagh:

  • Richard Fitz-James de Barry (d. 24 Apr 1622) who was born deaf and dumb and so was passed over in the inheritance.
  • David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant (d. 10 Apr 1617) the second son who succeeded to the titles.
  • William Barry (d.c 11 Apr 1594) of Barry Roe (Irish: Rua meaning red) in Carbery. He married Shely (Julia), daughter of Sir Finin MacCarthy Reagh. This branch of the family, Barry Roe, claimed the titles from the formerly leading branch.
  • Edmund Barry
  • John Barry (d. 31 Jan 1627)
  • Joan Barry
  • Honora Barry
  • Eleanor Barry
  • Ilane Barry

In 1570, Lord James de Barry, 4th. Viscount Buttevant, received a lease, to hold for twenty-one years, of "the site of the house of the friars at Killnamullagh, alias Buttevante, County Cork, with its appurtenances at an annual rent of 16 shillings and 8 pence".

At the outbreak of the Desmond Rebellions, Viscount Buttevant joined the rebels and in the subsequent confiscations of his estates, the friary in Buttevant, together with its glebe, passed into the hands of the poet, Edmund Spenser.

References
    Peerage of Ireland
    Preceded by
    James Barry    		 Viscount Buttevant
    1581–1617    		 Succeeded by
    David Barry


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