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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.
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.
The 17th Baron of Dunsany died, after a short illness, on 16 January 1899, at Dunsany Castle, aged forty-five years. His widow, from whom he was separated in his last years, and who, by Royal Licence of 20 December 1905, assumed the names of Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, died at her residence, Dunstall Priory, Shoreham , near Sevenoaks, Kent ...
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.
Randal Plunkett, 21st Baron of Dunsany (born 9 March 1983) [4] is an Irish filmmaker, landowner and rewilding advocate. [5] Plunkett is the holder of a peerage title, and holds Dunsany Castle, one of the longest-inhabited houses in Ireland, and its remaining estate. Plunkett succeeded to the Dunsany title upon the death of his father in 2011.
Edward John Carlos Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany (10 September 1939 – 24 May 2011), [1] [2] was the grandson of the author Lord Dunsany, and a modern artist (painter and sculptor) and landowner. He succeeded to the title in 1999 on the death of his father, Randal Plunkett, 19th Baron of Dunsany. [3]
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