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Earl of Fingall

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155:(i.e. real property) consist of a large archive of manuscripts and ephemera (17th–20th century), documents incl. deeds, indentures, leases, wills, marriage settlements, incl. many on vellum. The Papers were purchased by the Fingal County Council and lodged in its Fingal Local Studies and Archives Department following an auction by Whyte’s Auctioneers on 6 February 1999 (item 373). However, the lands concerned did not actually extend into the modern Fingal, and the Earls’ 385:
FitzGerald, Charles William (Marquis of Kildare and later 4th Duke of Leinster). The Earls of Kildare and their Ancestors: from 1057 to 1773, 4th edition, published by Hodges, Smith & Co., Dublin, 1864 (pp. 235-236). He made the same mistake himself, i.e. that Elizabeth was a daughter of Bridget
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contain no evidence of any ownership in Fingal. Practically all the properties and leases relate to County Meath (or Westmeath), understandably since the Plunketts were originally, as indicated above, Barons of Killeen in County Meath. They essentially have nothing to do with the territory of
73:: his seven sons founded five separate branches of the Plunket family, including the Plunkets of Dunsany, Rathmore and Dunsoghly. He also had a daughter Matilda (or Maud), who became celebrated as "the bride of 127:, who was noted both as an activist in numerous causes and as a society hostess. All three titles became extinct on the death of the twelfth earl in 1984, and are not to be confused with the 510: 386:
O'Donnell Lady Tyrconnell (nee Fitzgerald) rather than a sister of Bridget, in the second edition of 1858 (page 226), but corrected this in his fourth edition in 1864
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who obtained it in 1208). Rather, the evidence indicates that Lord Killeen negotiated and purchased the Earldom for £2,700 during a sojourn in London in 1628.
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Lee, Sidney (Editor). Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XLI (Nichols-O’Dugan), published by Macmillan and Co., London and New York, 1895. Page 446
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as an Earldom and later peerage Barony (both now extinct) for the Plunketts of Killeen in Meath (as the
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on 29 September 1628. When still Baron Killeen, his first wife was Elizabeth, the second daughter of
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on 20 June 1831. He and his son and heir the ninth earl were both ardent supporters of
504: 488: 97: 78: 108:, who confirmed that Elizabeth married Luke Plunkett, 1st Earl of Fingall, in 1608. 93: 54: 61:, and there was an ongoing close relationship with the related Plunkett family of 69:, with whom they intermarried. Around 1426, Christopher Plunkett was created 17: 448:, by Professor Aidan Clarke, Ithaca and London, 1966. Page 62, reference 8 74: 376:). She was not an O'Donnell, as claimed by Carty/Lynch, but a FitzGerald 364:, published by Carty/Lynch, Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, April 1991 ( 49:. The seat of the title-holders was, from its establishment until 1953, 435:
1958 LXXIII (287):227–251, published by Oxford University Press, 1958.
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Arthur James Francis Plunkett, 11th Earl of Fingall, 4th Baron Fingall
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Oliver James Horace Plunkett, 12th Earl of Fingall, 5th Baron Fingall
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Arthur James Plunkett, 10th Earl of Fingall, 3rd Baron Fingall
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Arthur James Plunkett, 9th Earl of Fingall, 2nd Baron Fingall
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Arthur James Plunket, 8th Earl of Fingall, 1st Baron Fingall
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Seventy Years Young, Memoires of Elizabeth, Countess of
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Index

Baron Killeen
Peerage of Ireland
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Killeen Castle
County Meath
Ireland
Dunsany
Viscounts Gormanston
Malahide
Baron Galtrim
Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare
Carton House
Kilkea Castle
The 4th Duke of Leinster
Marquess of Kildare
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Catholic Emancipation
Elizabeth Burke-Plunkett
Prescriptive Barony
Lordship
Fingal
King John of England
prescriptive barony
Viscounts Gormanston
Walter de Lacy
Christopher Plunket, 1st Baron Killeen
John Plunket, 2nd Baron Killeen
Christopher Plunket, 3rd Baron Killeen
Christopher Plunket, 4th Baron Killeen
Edmond Plunket, 5th Baron Killeen

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