The Barry family motto is "Boutez-en-Avant". "Rotulus Pipae Cloynensis" (1364) makes ten references to "Bothon" in its Latin text. The "Lateran Registers" record the name "tempore" Pope Innocent VIII as "Bottoniam" (7 March 1489) and "Buttumam" (3 June 1492); and "tempore" Pope Alexander VI in various forms: as "Bothaniam" (14 February 1499), "Betomam" (12 March 1499), and "Buttomam" (15 January 1500). Edmund Spenser, in "Colin Clouts Come Home Againe" (1595), gives an early example of the modern name and associates it with "Mullagh", his name for the river Awbeg: