Families of Carrigtwohill

Barry of Barrymore

Barry of Carrigtwohill

The Barry name can be traced back to three very distinct Barry families of very different origins based in the parish of Carrigtwohill and surrounding districts of both Catholic and Protestant faiths. All three had vastly extended branches, and may still be found in the village and neighbouring townlands to this day.

The Standish Barry family is a branch of the original Catholic Barry family at Leamlara, Carrigtwohill. Whereas the Smith Barry branch became Protestant who were bases predominantly at Marbury Hall, Cheshire, England with a substantial estate at Foaty, today's Fota Island. Both branches are descended from the Philip de Barri of Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

The third is of Dundellerick, north of Lisgoold, whose line did not adopt a double-barrel name format, fully documented by Rev. Father Edmund Barry, P.P., Rathcormack.

Reverend Father Edmond Barry

One very important branch of the Barry family includes those of Rockville, fully chronicled by Reverend Edmond Barry, M.R.I.A., V.P.R.S.A.I., former PP of the Rathcormac, and Rockville. This is a valuable and rare document which has been scanned for posterity; a copy of which was published Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Journal, 1902, and may be found at the local history section of Cork City Library, Grand Parade.