What is recorded here

Castle in Buncarrick, County Wexford: unclassified, probably Barry land. In 1598 Barry of Buncarricg was called a gentleman of Forth, and James Barry held sixty-six acres there around 1640. A structure on the Down Survey map may have been a house or a mill, not a grand castle at all. The name Castle may be pride, mistake, or memory stretching what the Barrys actually owned.

In 1598 Barry of Buncarricg was accounted one of the gentlemen of Forth (Jeffrey 1979, 11). According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) James Barry held 66 acres at Buncarricke in Carne parish c. 1640 (Simington 1953, 305) and a structure that might be a house or a mill is depicted on the Down Survey barony map at Buncarrick (1). These Barrys may be the same family as that in Barrystown (WX045-020001-). See the attached section from the Down Survey barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 21 March, 2014

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