Joan Cusack 6th Lady of Killeen

• Preferred Name: Joan Cusack 6th Lady of Killeen^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: LT83-PZW
  
• Birth: 1370 in Killeen, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.5435 LONG: E6.5965 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 4 MAR 1441 in Ireland with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Burial: in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.5392 LONG: E6.6197 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  heir of Killeen castle, Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland & Dunsany Castle, Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland
  
  Lady Joan de Cusack,[35] daughter of Sir Lucas de Cusack,[36] Lord of Killeen, and Matilda Flemming, daughter of the Baron of Slane, married Sir Christopher Plunkett [37] of Rarhregan in 1399.[38]
  
  Sir Christopher joined her as Lord of Killeen at the Castle.
  
  Lady Joan de Cusack as an heiress brought not only the parish and the castles of Killeen and Dunsany but also the following manors and tenements to her husband. (we must remember that a manor often involved thousands of acres). In the parish of Kilskire, the townlands of Boltown, Kilskire and Robbinstown. In the parish of Killallon, Galboystown, Seraghstown and Glehalstown. These two parishes are adjacent in the Barony of Fore, Co Meath in which she also had seisen of Loughcrew. Also in what is now the Barony of Lower Navan, in the parish of Clonmacduff, she owned Ballardin and Tullahanstown. Finally the townland of Cloney closes the list.[39](ref Pontifico Hibernica II, pp. 210–11)
  
  The chantry church, outside Killeen Castle, built by the last of the Cusacks in Killeen, Joan, and her husband, Christopher Plunkett, is now a national monument. It was endowed with the object of having Masses and Prayers offered for the donors, their forebears and posterity, and doutless inspired partly by the little ruin that gave its name to the castle, and also partly by the fact that Lady Joan was the last of a long line of Cusacks to live in Killeen Castle for 269 years. The names of the Cusacks and Plunketts on the mortuary inscriptions in the church have been listed and a Robert Cusack Esq. and Margaret Plunkett are recorded being buried here in 1620. (ref. Beryl Moore: The Tombs in St Mary's ruined Church, Killeen)[40]
  
  The tomb stone is directly in front of the alter and displays -
  
  A knight and his lady carved in low releif surmounted by a rich double canopy. The lady is lying on her husband's right and wears a bullock's hoof-shaped head dress, her feet rest on a cushion. The knight is cleanshaven and his feet rest on a small sporting dog. Both have their hands doubled up flat on their chests. They are Sir Christopher Plunkett and Lady Joan Cusack who married in 1399.
  
  A portion of the black-lettered inscription which runs along the edge can still be read and it gives their names and says they 'caused this church to be built'[41]
  
  History
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  Parents and Siblings
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  Sir Lucas Cusack , Baron of Killeen
  
  1333–1388
  Mathilde Fleming
  
  1352–Deceased
  Marriage: about
  
  History
  Family Time Line
  
  Spouse and Children
  
  Parents and Siblings
  1320
  1340
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  1440
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  Sir Lucas Cusack , Baron of Killeen
  
  1333–1388
  Mathilde Fleming
  
  1352–Deceased
  Marriage: about
  
  === The Peerage ===
  Christopher Plunket, 1st Lord Dunsany1
  
  M, #217502, b. circa 1410, d. 1467
  Last Edited=20 Mar 2011
  Christopher Plunket, 1st Lord Dunsany was born circa 1410.2 He was the son of Sir Christopher Plunket and Genet de Cusack.3 He married, firstly, Anne FitzGerald, daughter of Richard FitzGerald and Joan de Castle Martin.2 He married, secondly, Elizabeth Preston, daughter of Christopher Preston, 3rd Lord Preston of Gormanston and Jane d'Artois.2 He died in 1467.4
  He held the office of Constable of Dublin Castle in 1435.2 He was created 1st Lord Dunsany [Ireland] circa 1462.2
  Child of Christopher Plunket, 1st Lord Dunsany and Anne FitzGerald
  
  John Plunket+3 d. 1455
  Citations
  
  [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/1, page 9. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1240. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
  [S37] BP2003. [S37]
  [S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 151. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.

1. Elizabeth Isabel Plunkett, b. ABT 1418 in Rathmore, County Meath, Ireland     d. in ,Plattyn,Meath,Ireland

1. Title: online - Plunkett
   
2. Title: Joan Cusack Plunkett, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK18-P1VT : 15 June 2022), Joan Cusack Plunkett, ; Burial, Dunsany, , County Meath, Ireland, Killeen Castle Cemetery; citing record ID 138212734, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK18-P1VT;
   Page: Her burial details
   
3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Joan de Cusake -
   Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2676700743
   
4. Title: Joan Cusak, "Ireland, Betham Genealogical Abstracts, 1179-1830"
   Author: "Ireland, Betham Genealogical Abstracts, 1179-1830", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JXT-K7PQ : 27 October 2022), Joan Cusak, .
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JXT-K7PQ;
   
5. Title: Joan Cusak in entry for Sir Christn Plunket, "Ireland, Betham Genealogical Abstracts, 1179-1830"
   Author: "Ireland, Betham Genealogical Abstracts, 1179-1830", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JXT-7V13 : 27 October 2022), Joan Cusak in entry for Sir Christn Plunket, .
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6JXT-7V13;