Margaret Plunkett

Abt 1770 - Abt 1845  (75 years)

• Name	Margaret Plunkett
  Birth	Abt 1770
  Christening	Abt 1770
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1845	Meath, Ireland
  Person ID	I12151	Clan Montgomery
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2001

  
  

  Family 1	Peter Bradley,   b. Abt 1767, Meath, Ireland d. Abt 1842, Meath, Ireland (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	10 May 1795	Oldcastle Cath.C, Oldcastel Parish, Dioceses Meath, Co. Maeth
  Children	1. Mary Bradley,   b. Abt Aug 1793, Oldcastle, Oldcastel Parish, Meath Dioceses, Co. Meath   2. Thomas Bradley,   b. Abt 1797, Oldcastle (town), Oldcastle Parish, Meath Dioceses, Co. Meath d. Abt 1870 (Age 73 years)   3. owen Bradley,   b. 12 May 1799, Oldcastle (town), Oldcastel Parish, Meath Dioceses, Co. Meath d. 6 May 1874, Milford, Worcester, Co., Mass. (Age 74 years)   4. Anne Margaret Bradley,   b. Abt 1804, Oldcastle (town), Oldcastel Parish, Meath Dioceses, Co. Meath d. Abt 1879 (Age 75 years)   5. Catherine Bradley,   b. Abt 1806, Oldcastle (town), Oldcastel Parish, Meath Dioceses, Co. Meath d. Abt 1881 (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F3853	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2015

  
  

  Family 2	Edward Magrath
  Marriage	28 Jul 1814	Oldcastle Cath.C, Oldcastel Parish, Dioceses Meath, Co. Maeth
  Family ID	F3964	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2015

  
  

• Event Map		Death - Abt 1845 - Meath, Ireland  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  The Plunket name was spelled two ways in the Parish Registers, Plunket and Plunkett. There were two witnesses to her marriage with Peter Bradley. Listed in the marriage register were James Mc Code & Edward Plunkett. There were also two witnesses to her marriage to Edward Magrath. The Parish Resister lists Graham Reed & Connor Sheridan as witnesses. HISTORY - PLUNKETT CASTLE - In the earley 16th century, all the countryside about the castle was Plunkett land. The Civil Survey of 1640 gives "Christopher Plunket, Irish Papist, in possession of the town and parish of Castlekieran, containg 5 poles of land (434 acres) and on the land are a castle, a cornmill and mill, 2 ell wiers and an old chapel". The Civil survey of 1654 show Captain James Stopford one of "the 49 officers" (those who had served The IrishParliament berofe 1649) possesed the land. Later it went to the Featherston family. The site of the Plunkett Castle which gave its name to the district is on the bank of the river Blackwater and is now incorporated in a farmhouse. Onlysome of its massive walls in the farmyard are still to be seen. EARLY CHURCH SITE . . . . A small building of 45.5 ft. x 20 ft., east-west orientatiored. The west gable is likely the oldest and has survived from the 16th century and outside it is a transverse wall of later construction erected to enclose a tomb after the Church ceased to be used for worship. Just outside the southwall is an arched entrance likely all that is left of a valt with no inscription but it is likely a Plunkett valt. The north side has a long low mound locally said to be the communal grave of the victims of the dread asiatic cholera which decimated this district in the early thirties of the 16th century. Few inscribed monuments are to be found and none earlier than the 18th century. A hollow stone to the south of the Church imbedded in the soil is either the Holy Water Stoup or the base of another cross of small size. THE TERMON CROSSES . . . . belong to the early Christian period and mark the boundry of the ancient Sanctuary (Latin termini and Galic tearmann). They are plain ringed crosses located to north, south and west of the Church with only the base of the east cross. N- Cross . . . Largest of group, 12 ft. in height, top broken, samll patterns on the ring. S- Cross . . . Most perfect, 10 ft. in height, some interlacing patterns on ring and in center a boss. W- Cross . . . Height 8.8 ft., one arm broken, roll and bead edging. E- Cross . . . Only base left. Date . . . Perhaps 8th or9th century. All are plain type and have no scriptural carvings. In the River Blackwater near the Cemetery at low water is to be seen the base of a 5th cross. Locals say St. Columcille stole it to add to his collection in Kells but was suprised in the dark of the night by St. Ciaran discovering the theft, that St. Columcille left in such haste that he dropped the base in the river. This is an anachronism as the two Saints were divided by a couple of hundred years. A much more likely explanation is that the cross was being transported from the quarry on the other side of the river. One of the Outstanding men in Meath history is St. Oliver Plunkett or the Duke of Wellington.