Barony of Barretts

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Barretts (Irish: Baróidigh[l 1]) is a barony in County Cork in Ireland.[l 1] The name is from the Old English Barrett family.[1]

Barretts is bordered by the baronies of Muskerry East to the south-west, Duhallow to the north-west, Fermoy to the north, Barrymore to the east and the Barony of Cork to the south-east.[2] Until 1836, Barretts and Muskerry (East and West) were interlaced with detached fragments of each other; land transfers by the Grand Jury (Ireland) Act 1836 regularised and consolidated their respective territories.[1] The largest settlement in Barretts is Whitechurch.

Legal context

Baronies were created after the Norman invasion as subdivisions of counties and were used for administration. Baronies continue to be regarded as officially defined units, but they are no longer used for many administrative purposes. While they have been administratively obsolete since 1898, they continue to be used in land registration and specification such as in planning permissions. In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier Gaelic túath which had submitted to the Crown.

See also

References

From "Irish placenames database". logainm.ie (in English and Irish). Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Archived from the original on 22 April 2010. Retrieved 16 April 2010. :

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Barretts

From other sources:

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland adapted to the new Poor-Law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical arrangements ... as existing in 1844–45. I: A–C. Dublin: A. Fullarton & Co. 1846. p. 225. 
  2. ↑ Joyce, P.W. (c. 1880). "County Cork". Philips' Handy Atlas of the Counties of Ireland. London: George Philips & Son. p. 7. 

Map of the baronies in County Cork
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