However, unlike peers in the British House of Lords, they did not necessarily hold a hereditary peerage title.
As a result, feudal barons were not automatically entitled to seats in the Irish House of Lords by virtue of their barony alone.
[1] In other words, the title of feudal baron did not in itself confer membership or voting rights in the Irish House of Lords.
Those few feudal baronies that survive all are considered as "incorporeal hereditaments", and may continue to exist as interests or estates in land, registrable as such upon conveyance or inheritance under the Registry of Deeds of the Government of Ireland, or as titles held in gross as personal rights, and not as real interests in land.
However, those obsolete or unregistered feudal titles, and those that lapsed into desuetude after 1662, when the Irish Parliament passed the Abolition of Tenures Act, no longer exist as incorporeal hereditaments, nor as personal rights, and cannot be revived.