Sir Christopher Plunket

Audited 26 Jul 2026 - Junction #7: de-composited. Death 12 Oct 1613 Meath and suffix Earl of Fingall removed as belonging to Christopher Plunkett, 8th Lord Killeen; ours was alive on royal deputations in 1620 and 1623 (Ball, County Dublin vol. 6 pp. 71-72). BAGENAL dropped from the name field (it was the surname of the wife). Parents added per Bagenal 1925 + Ball. See ancestry/plunkett-dunsoghly-junction.md. ── ADDENDUM 31 Jul 2026: HIS DEATH IS NOW A DATE, FROM HIS OWN INQUISITION POST MORTEM. Co. Dublin, Car. I, inq. 40, taken at Kilmainham 28 May 1635 (Repertorium vol. I, Dublin 1826): « praefat' Christ' Pluncket condidit ultimà voluntat' suà ULT' DIE JUN' 1634 … & 18 MAR' 1634, OBIIT. — praefat' JAC' PLUNCKET EST EJUS FIL' & HER', ETAT' 48 ANNOR' & MARITAT'. » ⇒ he made his will on the last day of June 1634 and died 18 March 1634 OLD STYLE = 18 MARCH 1635 modern; his son and heir James was 48 and married. Death changed from 'aft 1623' to 18 Mar 1635. ⚠️ OLD STYLE is forced, not assumed: a will of 30 June 1634 must precede the death. ⚠️ VARIANT RECORDED, NOT SMOOTHED: inq. 74 (Jan 1643) gives '13 mar 1634' and dates the will 'ult jun 1635' — the will cannot postdate the death, so 74 errs on the year; the DAY (18 vs 13) is unresolved. ⭐ HIS WILL SURVIVES IN SUBSTANCE: both inquisitions say its tenor was entered on the roll ('cujus tenor sequitur in originali'), so the Chancery inquisition roll — not a probate register — is where to look for it. ⚠️ Those rolls burned in the Four Courts in 1922; the printed Repertorium is now the only witness. ⭐ THE ESTATE, as the jury found it: the manor of DUNSOGHLY and OUGHTERMOY with a castle, 10 messuages and 120 acres; a second castle at DUBBER; and lands at Larryston, Corbally, Donowre, Merryvall, Hollywoodrath, Scribriston, Porterston, Killmacmonan, Johnston, Braghan, Bushopswood, Bushopsland, Whiteleas, Ballseskan and 10 acres by Finglas bridge. Memo: ancestry/plunkett-dunsoghly-junction.md.