1) Garret Barry (Piper) was born in 1837, during the great famine.
2) A disease caused him to loose his sight as a young child.
3) Barry died in 1899, he was Irish and blind among the most famous players of the 19th century.
4) Barry was a popular and respected musician travelling his region to play at house dances.
5) Barry was raised on a farm in the townland of Kylea called 'Inagh Parish' on the shores of Cloonmackan Lough, in an area known as the Garden of Willows.
6) He inspired many later pipers such as Willie Clancy.
7) There is no record of him exists other than certification of his death as a 52 year old bachelor in 1999.
8) Its possible that Garret Barry travelled in Country Kerry in his younger years.
9) An old neighbour of the Barry family claimed that Garret Barry had received some torturing from a Kerry Piper.
10) Garret Barry was obliged to learn poetic or musical skills in order to earn a living.
