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Dunsany Castle (Irish: Caisleán Dhún Samhnaí), Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is a modernised Anglo-Norman castle, [1] started c. 1180 / 1181 by Hugh de Lacy, who also commissioned the original Killeen Castle, nearby, and the famous Trim Castle.
There is a book at Dunsany Castle with wartime photographs, on which lost members of his command are marked. During the Irish War of Independence , Dunsany was charged with violating the Restoration of Order in Ireland Regulations , tried by court-martial on 4 February 1921, convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of 25 pounds or serve three ...
The title Baron of Dunsany or, more commonly, Lord Dunsany, is one of the oldest (1439 or 1462) dignities in the Peerage of Ireland, one of just a handful of 13th- to 15th-century titles still extant, having had 21 holders, of the Plunkett name, to date.
Killeen Castle (Irish: Caisleán an Chillín), located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180. The current building is a restoration of a largely 19th century structure, burnt out in 1981.
A charter of 1439, a few years before his father's death, refers to the younger Sir Christopher as lord of the manor of Dunsany (Dns. de Dunsany). He is referred to by William Camden, in the following century, as being the first Baron of Dunsany, that is to say, a hereditary member of the Irish House of Lords. What year he became a peer is ...
The Dunsany family has had a curator, Joe Doyle, since the 1990s, who gathered materials by Dunsany and Francis Ledwidge at Dunsany Castle, compiled writing and publication data, and unearthed works such as the Last Book of Jorkens and some "loose" Jorkens stories, plays including The Ginger Cat, and a set of short stories, some published in a ...
The family seat of the Lords Dunsany is at Dunsany Castle, Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland.The original Dunsany and nearby Killeen Castles were built by Geoffrey de Cusack who was a tenant of Sir Hugh de Lacy, an early Cambro-Norman who arrived in Ireland with Strongbow, sometime between his arrival in Ireland in 1172 and the year 1181.
He was the only surviving son of Edward Plunkett, 4th Baron of Dunsany and his wife Amy (or Anny) de Bermingham, daughter of Philip de Bermingham and Ellen Strangeways. His mother died in 1500, suggesting a birth date for Robert in the late 1490s.