[
UK
/bˈæɹəni/
]
NOUN
- the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness
- the estate of a baron
- the domain of a baron
How To Use barony In A Sentence
- At the root of the problem is nothing so mundane as access to the hills and glens but the booming industry in Scottish barony titles that sell on average for £55,000 each.
- The tragic death of Mr. Shane Fitzgerald, from Kilmacleague, Dunmore East, last week was felt all over the barony of Gall Tir including Passage and surrounding areas.
- Passage meet Ballyduff Upper in the County intermediate final at Walsh Park on Sunday next and the game is being eagerly looked forward to in the village and indeed around the barony.
- On the death of the incumbent baron in 1965, the title passed to Elizabeth / Ewan, who, by dint of a paper ‘sex change’, was now the male heir to the barony.
- Situated in the centre of the Barony of Erris, Belmullet lies between the bays of Broadhaven to the north, and Blacksod to the south and is tailor-made for such a festival.
- Towns could be burghs of barony under a feudal superior.
- The script is by Julian Fellowes, probably the first Oscar-winning writer to have been ennobled — he was made a life peer by being given a barony in the honors list published in November. Peerless Titles
- It expected that at least three players from the barony will be re-named in the starting fifteen Noel McGuire, Dessie Sloyane of Easkey and Patrick Naughton of Castleconnor.
- He inherited his barony at the age of 19 and was an ardent exclusionist, voting Lord Stafford guilty in 1680.
- He estimates that only 10% of the estimated 2,500 barony titles held in Scotland are genuine.