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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. Killeen was built as one of a pair of castles either side of a major roadway north ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Killeen Castle may refer to: Killeen Castle, Dunsany is a castle near Dunshaughlin, County Meath, ...
Dunsany is a district of County Meath, Ireland, which gave its name to a branch of the Plunkett family, which has had a number of well-known members. It contained both Dunsany Castle, still in Plunkett hands, and Killeen Castle, each with its demesne. The area is also home to a major European Union veterinary facility.
Dunsany Castle and demesne, and other remnants of the family estates, are situated in and near the townland of Dunsany, County Meath, between the historic town of Trim and Dunshaughlin. At nearby Dunsany Cross is a hamlet, [ 2 ] with a post office store, Catholic church and primary school, a GAA pitch with a clubhouse and bar and a mix of ...
A second phase of activity saw a ringwork constructed on the site, and a church at Killeen is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302–06) of Pope Nicholas IV. The current Killeen Church was built by Sir Christopher Plunkett (c. 1370 – c. 1445), a grandson of Sir Richard Plunkett , in the early 15th century.
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.
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