David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore

David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore (1605–1642), 6th Viscount Buttevant from 1617 to 1628, was a Protestant native Irish peer. He died of wounds received at the battle of Battle of Liscarroll in September 1642.

David Barry
Earl of Barrymore
Tenure	1628–1642
Successor	Richard, 2nd Earl of Barrymore
Born	10 March 1605
Died	29 September 1642
Buried	Youghal
Spouse(s)	Alice Boyle
Issue Detail	Richard & others
Father	David de Barry
Mother	Elizabeth Power

Birth and origins

Family tree

David Barry with wife, parents, and other selected relatives. Ellen Roche David Barry 5th Viscount 1550–1617 Julia MacCarthy David Barry d. 1604 d.v.p.* Elizabeth Power David 1st Earl Barrimore 1605–1642 Alice Boyle Martha Lawrence Richard 2nd Earl 1630–1694 Dorothy Ferrar Laurence 3rd Earl 1664–1699 Martha Lawrence James 4th Earl 1667–1748 Elizabeth Savage Legend XXX Subject of the article XXX Viscounts Buttevant Earls of Barrymore *d.v.p. = predeceased his father (decessit vita patris)

David was born on 10 March 1605, probably at Buttevant, County Cork, a posthumous child of David de Barry and his wife Elizabeth Power. His father was an heir apparent who never acceded. David's grandfather was David de Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant. The Barrys were an Old English family who had come from Wales at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland.

His mother was a daughter of Richard Power, 4th Baron le Power and Curraghmore.

Early life and marriage

He succeeded as 6th Viscount Buttevant on 10 April 1617 on the death of his grandfather. Through Cork's influence, he was created Earl of Barrymore on 28 February 1628

Marriage and children

In 1631 Buttevant, as he was now, married Alice Boyle, daughter of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, by his second wife, Catherine Fenton.

Irish wars

During the 1641 rebellion, he quite naturally sided with the Crown upon whom his title and lands depended. When the rebellion spread into Munster, he fought vigorously against the insurgents. On 10 May 1642, he stormed the Castle of Ballymacpatrick (now Careysville), near Fermoy, which was held by his grand-aunt, and hanged forty of the rebel leaders before breakfast. On 16 May, he lost Barrymore Castle at Castlelyons, his seat, to Maurice Roche, Viscount Fermoy and Donough MacCarty, 2nd Viscount Muskerry.

He led a regiment at the Battle of Liscarroll in September 1642. He died two weeks later on 29 September 1642 at his house in Castle Lyons probably of wounds received at the battle. He was buried in the Boyle Vault, Youghal, County Cork, by his grieving father-in-law, Richard Boyle.

Barrymore Castle at Castlelyons

Notes and references

Sources

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