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].