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BARRY COMPLETE PEERAGE 437 1234, a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Botavant [i.e. Buttevant, co. CorkJ.C) In 1235 he enlarged the friary of Ballybeg. It was probably he who was styled Barrach Mor [i.e. the great Barry] by the Irish, and who was slain at the battle of Callan, in Desmond, in 1261.O I. 1261 ? I. David de Barry, of Olethan, i^c., s. and h., called David Oge [junior] and Anbuille [i.e. of the blows]. He was Lord Justiciar of Ireland 1267. According to a grotesquely untrue statement in Lodge he " was styled the ist Viscount of Buttevant. " (") He may perhaps be regarded as the first of his family to obtain the status of a Peer as LORD BARRY, BARR Y M ORE, or BUTTEVANT [ I . ] , although any date given for the origin of early prescriptive Irish titles such as this must be in the nature of guess work. He d. in 1278. II. 1278. 2. John (Barry), Lord Barry, Barrymore or But- tevant [I.], s. and h. On i July 1283 a distraint was served on him by the Lord Justiciar [I.] to compel him to receive knight- hood. In 1284 he surrendered Olethan, and in 1285 Muscry-Donnegan, to his brother David, as below. C) III. 1285. 3. David FiTZ David (Barry), Lord Barry, Barry- more or Buttevant [I.], br. and h., of Olethan in 1284, (*) The name of Buttevant is said to have been derived from the war cry " Boutez en avant, " used in a victory over the MacCarthies near that place, about 1267, gained by David de Barry, and ever after adopted as a motto by his descendants. Ahhough as an Irish chieftain he was much more likely to be acquainted with Norman French than with English, it is not easy to accept this derivation. V. G. (**) The Rev. E. Barry suggests that this David may have been succeeded at an earlier date than 126 1 by a brother, John, who was slain at Callan in 126 1. But the introduction of a John Barry into one of the Carew Pedigrees (where he is made grandfather of the 1st so-called Viscount Buttevant) appears to be a mistake. V. G. i^) In the dateless pedigrees of these Lords drawn up in the latter half of the 1 6th Century (Carew MSS., Lambeth Library), the Viscountcy of Buttevant is ascribed to them as early as the 13th century, i.e. at least 150 years before the style of " Viscount " as a Peerage dignity was known in England ! Of course, none of these Lords is ever styled " Viscount " in any existing contemporary document. There is, indeed, a deed enrolled 26 Nov. (16 14) 12 Jac. I, on the Patent Roll [I.], on the petition of one John Barry Esq., but this must be received with the gravest suspicion as to its genuineness. It purports to be a grant by " Jacobus Diius Vic. de Buttevant" dated Monday before the Epiphany (4 Jan. 1405/6) 7 Hen. IV. At that date, however, the Lord of Buttevant was John Barry, who never in any official document of his own time was styled Dominus, but who may then (as he undoubtedly was in 1401 and 1413-15) have been " Vicecomes " [i.e. Sheriff, not Viscount] of county Cork. See Appendix A in this volume. V.G. C) He is not mentioned in the pedigrees, having presumably d. s.p., and so being out of the line of descent.