[County Cork barony] Bantry (Beanntraí) is a barony in the west of County Cork in Ireland. Patrick Weston Joyce said the name Beanntraí means `descendants of Beann [Ban]`, a son of Conchobar mac Nessa; similarly for the Wexford barony of Bantry. The barony contains the town of Bantry and the top of Bantry Bay in its south east, including ...