Mac Bhaitin Bared, i. e. Mac Wattin Barrett. The head of the Barretts of Tirawley took that Irish appellation from an ancestor called Wattin, or little Walter. It is curious to remark that the name Barrett is, in Munster, called in Irish Báróid, and in Connaught Bairéad.
| From The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, commonly called O'Dowda's Country (Author: Duald Mac Firbis), p.325 column 2 | Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition Close footnote |