page_title: Richard Plunkett
section_title: Family background
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Plunkett / Family background
caption_attribution_description: English: External view of Beaulieu House in County Louth, Republic of Ireland
context_page_description: Richard Plunkett was an eminent Irish judge and statesman of the fourteenth century, who held the offices of Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. His descendants held the titles Baron Dunsany, Baron Killeen and Earl of Fingall.
context_section_description: He was born about 1340, son of Richard Plunkett of Rathregan, County Meath. The Plunketts were a long-established Anglo-Irish family of the Pale, who   originally settled at Beaulieu  in County Louth  about 1200. Another branch of the family later held the title Baron Louth.
caption: Beaulieu, the ancestral home of the Plunkett family, present day
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