He succeeded to the title of 8th Lord Barry [I., c. 1261] circa 1420. He held the office of Sheriff of County Cork in 1433. He held the office of a Commissioner for the peace of County Cork in 1434. He held the office of Sheriff of County Cork in 1451. He held the office of Sheriff of County Cork in 1461. On 8 November 1461 he had a grant of 20 marks per year for life from King Edward IV, out of the customs of Cork.
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 438-9.