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4th Baron Louth
Oliver Plunkett, 4th Baron Louth (see here), succ 1575,
mar 1stly to Frances Bagenal
and died 5th Mar 1607, having had issue:
- Margaret Plunkett,
mar 1605 to Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, 1st Viscount Fitzwilliam and had issue.
- Matthew Plunkett, 5th Baron Louth,
mar Mary Fitzwilliam
and died 19th July 1629, having had issue
(ancestors of Barons Louth of Louth Hall, S of Tallanstown, towards Ardee, Co.Louth,
like the Fitzwilliams, a prominent 17th cent. Roman Catholic family,
Royalist in English Civil War, supporters of King James against William).
- Louth Hall, Ardee, survives.
It is an old tower-house
with a large building of date 1760 attached,
and 19th cent. battlements.
See [Irish Country Houses].
