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Sir Thomas Plunkett, of Dunsoghly

Official spelling (Ordnance Survey, Townlands Index) is "Dunsoghly".

Dunsoghly Castle, 2003.
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Picture courtesy of Michael Davy.

Sir Thomas Plunkett, Chief Justice,
built Dunsoghly Castle [pron. "Dunsokly"], SW of St.Margaret's, N Co.Dublin, c.1470.

Location of Dunsoghly Castle.
Small chapel is just to S of the tall castle.
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Dunsoghly Castle from the E, 1999.
Chapel on LHS (to S).

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• Dunsoghly Castle survives today. It has the only surviving original 15th cent. wooden roof timbers in Ireland.
• There is a chapel, built 1573 (date carved over chapel door) by Plunkett of Dunsoghly, beside it.
• Entrance is from S side. It is surrounded by a working farm and is not open to public. For appointment ring Office of Public Works.
• See [Irish Country Houses], [Harbison, 1998], [O'Brien and Guinness, 1994], [Pritchard and Blake, 1993], [Archer, pre-1949].

• It was used as a location (as a stand-in for Edinburgh Castle) in the movie Braveheart (1995).