Estate: Barry/Harold-Barry

Associated Families

• Harold-Barry
• Glover

Description

In 1782 Richard Harold of Singland and Pennywell, county Limerick married Mary, only child and heiress of John Barry of Ballyvonare, Buttevant, county Cork. Their son, John, assumed the additional surname of Barry when he inherited the Barry estate. The Harold Barry estate was in the parish of Doneraile, county Cork and in the 1870s amounted to 1,662 acres. MacLysaght, in his 1944 report on the papers, noted that "several trunks of family and estates papers were partially destroyed by flooding recently".

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballyvonare (H3238) A Barry property from the late 18th century passing through the female line to the Harold/Harold-Barry family. The house was valued at £34 at the time of Griffith's Valuation and was held in fee. In the 1940s the Irish Tourist Association Survey outlined details of the family's history in the area and the existence of a soup kitchen there during the Famine. The Harold-Barrys still live at Ballyvonare.	Ballinvonear	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.26452 -8.61378 OSI Ref: R581 127 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #17.
Ballyellis (H3245) Ballyellis was occupied by Edmund Barry in 1814 and by Henry Langley at the time of Griffith's Valuation. H. Langley held the property from James Barry and the buildings were valued at £12. It later came into the possession of the Harold Barry family and members of the family were still resident at Ballyellis at the beginning of the 21st century.	Ballyellis	Doneraile	Mallow	Doneraile 242	Fermoy	Cork	Lat/Lon: 52.22938 -8.62940 OSI Ref: R570 088 Discovery map #73. OS Sheet #17.

Archival sources

• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey files, Parish of Doneraile
• Limerick City Library: Copies of indenture between Edward Harold of Upper Mallow St, Limerick & John Harold Barry re premises in Limerick city, 3 Oct 1880.
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Harrold of Pennywell, Co Limerick, c 1630-1750. GO MS 164:63
• National Library of Ireland: Pedigree of Harrold of Pennywell, Co Limerick, c1650-1783. GO MS 177:329-332
• National Library of Ireland: Draft pedigrees and genealogical office reports on the families of Harrold (later Harold) of Limerick and Dublin, copies of deeds of the family of Barry of Ballyvonare, etc., c.1200-1950. GO Ms.801, p.14

Contemporary printed sources

Many of these resources are now available online. For a list with Web links please see the Online Printed Sources Links

• GRIFFITH'S VALUATION OF IRELAND'[Primary Valuation of Tenements]', 1850-1858. : Fermoy Barony, 52 (Ballinvonear)
• HUSSEY DE BURGH, U. H. The Landowners of Ireland. An alphabetical list of the owners of estates of 500 acres or £500 valuation and upwards in Ireland. Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Figgis, 1878. [available online at www.askaboutireland.ie] : 22
• LEET, Ambrose. A directory to the market towns, villages, gentlemen's seats, and other noted places in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by B. Smith, 1814 : 58 (Ballyvonear - Richard Harold)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of Untenanted Lands in Rural Districts, Distinguishing Demesnes on Which There is a Mansion..., HC 1906, c, 177: 241 (Ballinvonear)
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 117
• WALFORD, Edward. 'The County families of the United Kingdom. London: Chatto & Windus, 1885): p.56

Modern printed sources

• Analecta Hibernica: MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Harold Barry Papers. XV (1944), 131-133
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XIII, 2nd Series (1907),161-164 (Ballyellis)
• Jnl. of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.: Historical and Topographical Notes, etc on Buttevant, Doneraile, Mallow and Places in their vicinity. Collected by James Grove White (c 1906). XIII, 2nd Series (1907),161-164 (Ballyellis)
• HAJBA, Anna-Maria. Historical Genealogical Architectural notes on some Houses of Cork. Volume I: North Cork. Whitegate: Ballinakella Press, 2002: 51, 70-71
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 75-76
• O'HEA O'KEEFFE, Jane. Voices from the great houses: Cork and Kerry. (Cork: Mercier Press, 2013): 31-39