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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.
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.
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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.
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 ...
Dunsany, County Meath, a townland and hamlet, named for the adjacent castle and demesne; Christopher Plunkett, 1st Baron of Dunsany (1410–1463), Irish peer; Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, the writer and playwright "Lord Dunsany" Dunsany's Chess, an asymmetric variant of chess created by Lord Dunsany
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 .
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.