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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 ...
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.
Killeen Castle may refer to: Killeen Castle, Dunsany is a castle near Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland; Killeen Castle, Castlegar is a castle in Castlegar, ...
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 ...
Map all coordinates using ... Dangan Castle; Dardistown Castle; Donore Castle; Dunmoe Castle; Dunsany Castle and Demesne; Durhamstown Castle; K. Killeen Castle ...
The tenth baron, Luke Plunkett, was created Earl of Fingall on 29 September 1628. When still Baron Killeen, his first wife [1] was Elizabeth, the second daughter of Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare, as properly recorded in the histories of the FitzGeralds of Kildare, based on their own family archives in Carton House and Kilkea Castle, and on no better authority than The 4th Duke 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.
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 ...