Estate: Barry/Smith-Barry (Ballyedmond)

Associated Families

• Barry/Smith-Barry (Fota) (Baron Barrymore)
• Barry/Smith-Barry (Ballyedmond)
• Courtenay (Ballyedmond)

Description

In 1814 John Smith-Barry of Marbury Hall, Cheshire and Fota Island, county Cork, married Eliza-Mary, daughter of Robert Courtenay of Ballyedmond, county Cork. Their eldest son was the father of Arthur, Baron Barrymore, and their fourth son, Captain Richard Hugh Smith-Barry inherited Ballyedmond, county Cork from his uncle, John Courtenay in 1861. In the 1870s Captain Hugh Smith Barry owned 269 acres in county Limerick and 8,137 acres in county Cork. The Captain's grandson, Guy Forster, sold Ballyedmond in the 1960s.

Houses

House Name / Description	Townland	Civil Parish	PLU	DED	Barony	County	Map Ref
Ballyedmond (H3455) Ballyedmond passed through marriage from the Brownes to the Courtenays. Robert Courtney was the proprietor of Ballyedmund in 1814. John Courtenay held Ballyedmond from the Reverend William Halloran in the mid 19th century. The buildings were valued at £199. The seat of Robert Courtney Smith-Barry in 1894. Inherited by the Smith Barrys and sold by them in the 1960s. The house no longer exists but much estate architecture including gate lodges survives.	Ballyedmond	Templenacarriga	Middleton	Templenacarriga 277	Barrymore	Cork	Lat/Lon: 51.94058 -8.19633 OSI Ref: W865 765 Discovery map #81. OS Sheet #65.

Archival sources

• Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service: Chambers and Co., Northwich, [solicitors], deeds, family & estate papers, mainly 19th-20th centuries. DCN
• Cork County Library: Irish Tourist Association Survey, Parish of Lisgoold
• Irish Genealogical Research Society Library: Pedigree book for Barry family of county Cork (Leader Collection)
• National Library of Ireland: Papers of W. M. Reeves, solicitor, Limerick, agent for the Smith Barry estate including correspondence, accounts, notes of deeds, etc, circa 1000 items, some 18th century documents, mainly 1820-1852. MSS 10,466-10,467
• Public Record Office, Northern Ireland: Copies from Smith Barry Papers of rentals, valuations, accounts & correspondence re estates of Smith Barry family in Cos Louth, Limerick, Tipperary and Cork. Includes papers of Samuel Dickson, Cooks Court [London], land agent to the family, 1755. Also papers re Earl of Barrymore/Earl of Donegal estate in Co. Cork, inherited by Smith Barry family, 1702-1857. T3364

Contemporary printed sources

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

• BATEMAN, John. The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Harrison, 1883. : p.27
• 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] : 23
• PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Return of owners of land of one acre and upwards, in the several counties .... in Ireland. HC 1876, LXXX: 117, 146
• SLATER, Isaac. Royal National Directory of Ireland: List of the principal seats. (Manchester: 1894) : xxii, 317
• WALFORD, Edward. 'The County families of the United Kingdom. London: Chatto & Windus, 1885): p.57

Modern printed sources

• BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Revised ed. London: Constable, 1988. : 21
• MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD, Hugh (ed). Burke's Irish Family Records. London: Burke's Peerage, 1976: 76-77