Bantry (Irish: Beanntraí) is a historical barony in northeast County Wexford, Ireland.

[3][4] The barony of Bantry takes its name from the Gaelic Irish tribe of the Benntraige ("Benn's people"),[5] believed to be connected to the Coriondi, mentioned in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography.

[7] The chiefs of Bantry were later known by the surname O'Cosgraidh (O'Cosgrave).

[8] The entire barony was forfeit under the Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652.

[9] Bantry is in the west of the county, roughly the area south of the River Urrin, west of the River Slaney, east of the Blackstairs Mountains and the borders with County Kilkenny and County Carlow, and north of Carrickbyrne Hill.