Thom's Irish Who's Who/Barry, James Grene

BARRY, James Grene, M.R.S.A.I, Assistant Land Commissioner for Ireland, 1881-6; D.L. and J.P for Co. Limerick and a freeman of the City of Limerick; has been a County Grand Juror since 1867; Member of R. Soc. of Antiquaries from 1877; President of the North Munster Archaeological Society and to the journal of which he is a regular contributor; b. 1841; eldest son of late James Barry, J.P, of Bellevue, Croom, Co. Limerick, and Maria, dau. of John Grene, of Cappamurra House, Co. Tipperary; Educ.: St. Mary's Coll., Oscott; author of A Plan for the Settlement of the Irish Land Question; The Ancient Irish Church of St. Patrick; The Bourkes of Clanwilliam; Sir John Bourke of Brittas; Antiquites of the Isles of Aran and their Agrarian System; Limerick in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; The Cromwellian Settlement of the County Limerick, etc; m. 1881, Mary, dau. of Thomas Kane, M.D., J.P, of White Hall, Limerick. Res.: Sandville House, Ballyneety, Co. Limerick.