Baronoath

• barr an: (Irish) the top of the...

• Howth: peninsula and village to the east of Dublin city
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• to baronoath → to east (Howth being to the east of Ashtown)

• barony: in Ireland, a division of a county

• Barry: Irish family descended from the Norman Baron Odo de Barry; the de Barry war-cry, Boutez-an-Avant, is said to be the origin of the name Buttevant

• Baron of Howth: A title in the Anglo-Irish Peerage held in the St. Lawrence family which existed from around 1625 to 1801, at which time it was elevated to an earldom. The family seat was ay Howth Castle.

• Baron Oath: at Runymede the barons forced King John to swear an oath to restrain his power: the Magna Carta → seen as the start of English democracy and a defeat for the King thus compare to Roundthehead

• barren oath - to my mind if you read "ashton" as ashtree and try to find a stone here, "barren" encourages that thought.