James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant
Male, Deceased Person
1520 – 1581
Who was James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant?
James de Barry, 17th Baron Barry and 4th Viscount Buttevant, was the son of Richard de Barry, of Rathbarry in Barry Roe, and Isabel FitzGerald, a daughter of Sir James FitzGerald of Leixlip, who was a son of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare. His father Richard was a son of James de Barry, Lord of Ibane, and Elane MacCarthy of Muskerry.
He married Lady Ellen MacCarthy Reagh, an illegitimate daughter of Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh, 10th Prince of Carbery, and had first by her Richard Fitz-James de Barry, but was succeeded by David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant. His third son by Lady Ellen was William Barry, who received Barry Roe in Carbery, and married Shely, daughter of Sir Finin MacCarthy Reagh.
The marriage to Lady Ellen proved especially successful for Barry, allowing his branch of the family, Barry Roe, to claim the titles from the formerly leading branch. From this marriage would descend the Earls of Barrymore.
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