Bantry (Irish: Beanntraí)[l 1] is a barony in the west of County Cork in Ireland.
[l 1] 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.
[1] The barony borders the top end the southern shore of Bantry Bay.
[2] Baronies were created after the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland as divisions of counties and were used the administration of justice and the raising of revenue.
In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier Gaelic túath which had submitted to the Crown.