PREFACE                 

        The Ireland Barony of Fermoy (formerly Armoy) originally referred to the territory (with its many townlands) that lies between, the Blackwater River and the Galtee and Ballyhoura mountains. A Cistercian abbey was built in the barony in 1170, the year the Norman, Richard "Strongbow" DeClare, with his Norman French speaking Knights, invaded Ireland at the behest of Richard II of England.

   A market town grew quickly around the abbey and it was named Fermoy (Mainistir Fhear Maí), meaning, "Monastery of Men of the Plains". Fermoy town is located about 30 miles NNE of Cork City.

    The progenitors in this report, Robin Barry and Cornelius Buckley, were from Fermoy Barony and Fermoy Town. They, and their children, suffered through The Great Hunger (Gorta Mor) of 1845-1852.   We will never know how they fared, or how many may have died in this famine. FROM THEM WE ARE DESCENDED !!

The Cork Examiner, 30 Sept, 1846--"Every day is seen issuing from the Fermoy Workhouse three, four or five of its dead inmates. This day the number of deaths was seen as six in 24 hours .... however, nothing compared to the number outside its doors"

Spike