Barún

Rev Patrick Woulfe
1923

BARÚN—XIIBaroun, Baron, Barron; Middle English 'barun,' i.e., the baron, either a real baron, or one who put on the airs of a baron. Robert Barun was a member of the Dublin Guild-Merchant in 1226. A branch of the Fitzgeralds who were barons of Burnchurch, Co. Kilkenny, assumed the surname of Barron, and were a highly respectable family in Kilkenny, Tipperary and Waterford.

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