Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameDavid FitzJames BARRY Viscount Buttevant, 11G Grandfather
Spouses
1Ellen ROCHE, 11G Grandmother
ChildrenMargaret
2Julia MAC CARTHY, Step 11G Grandmother
Web Notes notes for David FitzJames BARRY Viscount Buttevant
From Concise Dictionary of National Biography, DA28.D55 1939, p67:
Barry, David FitzJames, Viscount Buttevant (1550-1617), soldier, 2d son of James Barry Roe, Viscount Buttevant; succeeded to title 1581, during the life of his elder brother who was deaf and dumb, supported Desmond's rebellion, 1579-83, but during Hugh O'Neill's rebellion, 1594-1603, served against the rebels.

From A New History of Ireland, edited by Moody, Martin & Byrne, v III, 1976, ISBN 0-19-821739-0, p. 146:
Viscount Buttevant in Nov 1600 had to send to England for corn and provisions for himself and his tenants, 'whose corn and haggards, with most of their cattle, the traitor Tyrone this last summer altogether burned, foraged, and spoiled.' Cal. S.P. Ire, 1600-01, p442.

BUTTEVANT, County Cork NAME ON MAP: Cill na Mullach SOURCE: Four Masters as at 1251 MODERN IRISH NAME: Cill na Mallach TYPE: Continental religious
foundation, also stone castle MEANING: "cill `church' of the mullach `hillocks'". Buttevant probably came from NORMAN FRENCH botavant `defensive outwork', rather than
the Barrymore family motto boutez-an-avant `push forward', which has been suggested.

David Barry, 5th Viscount Barry was the son of Sir James Fitz Richard Barry, 4th Viscount Barry and Ellen Reagh. He married, secondly, Julia MacCarthy, daughter of Cormac MacCarthy. He married, firstly, Ellen Roche, daughter of David Roche, 5th Viscount Roche of Fermoy and Ellen Butler, before October 1593. He died on 10 April 1617 at Barry Court, County Cork, Ireland.
     He succeeded to the title of 18th Lord Barry [I., c. 1261] on 10 April 1581. He succeeded to the title of 5th Viscount Barry [I., 1541] on 10 April 1581. Before 1599 he joined Desmond's rebellion, but then abandoned the rebel cause. In 1602 he commanded 1,600 men. On 15 November 1602 he was pardoned. He held the office of one of the Council of the province of Munster on 20 May 1615.
G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 442
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