Claim: After serving as Catholic Dean of Armagh and as Vicar-General to St Oliver Plunkett, the then-Archbishop of Armagh, Brian McGurk died at the age of 91.
Evidence: Brian McGurk was Dean of Armagh for forty years and parish priest of Termonmagurk 1660-1672, arrested five times under the penal law statute, but who out-witted the courts with his knowledge of canon and civil laws yet dying at ninety-one in Armagh gaol.