From "A New History of Ireland," edited by Moody, Martin & Byrne, vol 3, ISBN 0-19-821739-0, 1976, p 10: The districts from Youghal to Cork harbour and on the western shore of the latter were in the hands of the elder Desmond line, but much land was held by independent Old English lords. The Courceys still [in 1534] used the title of Lord Courcey; the alleged viscountancies claimed by the Roches (Viscount Fermoy) and the Barrys (Viscount Buttevant) had no legal basis, though they came to be recognized by the crown. Barrys and Roches, like other great Old English families in County Cork, were highly gaelicised, employing brehons and patronising bardic poetry.

He gained the title of 13th Lord Barry [I., c. 1261] circa 1530. 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 439.