Killeen Castle, Co.Meath
Dunsany, Co.Meath, NW of Dublin.
Killeen Castle built by
Hugh de Lacy, 1st Lord of Meath 1181,
inherited by the
Cusack
family,
passed by marriage to the
Plunkett
family 1403,
seat of
Plunkett, Earl of Fingall
(cr 1628),
sold out of the family c.1953.
It survives.
See
[Irish Country Houses].
In the grounds is a ruined medieval church
containing Plunkett tombs.