376 KILLEARN — KILLEEN. KILLEARN. See '•Blackburn of Killearn, co. Stirling," Barony (Btaekbuni) er. (for life) 1876. KILLEEN. [Observations. — The mode of creation, as also the exact date of this Peerage is obscure. Its possessor in 14S9 was one of the 9 Borons [I.], .sum. by Henry VII. to England, and was then ranked between Lord Delvin [I. ] and Lord Howth [I.]. Camden, in his " Hibamio," writes that " Chrijtupherua Plunket, tempore Ilenrici Sexti, evectus fnerat ad dignitatem B.unsis Kk.i.ix, quod, per uxorem, e itirpe Cusakia htcrcdem, ipti obvenerat." This passage lias been frequently mistranslated ; but it is obvious that the relative "quod" does not refer to the '• Dignitat Baronit," but to the word "A'lV/i'n," the Manor of Killeen, i.e., it signifies " quod manerium," not " quam dignitatem. (a) The Manor of Killeen was held by Richard Tnite of the Barons of Skryne, who tho' generally sum. to Pail. [I ] never pretended to the dignity of a Peerage. This Richard Tnite was sum. to a 1'arl. [I.] 8 Jan. ( 1 300,10 1 1.3 Ed. ft., and sat in a Pari, at Dublin (1323-21) 17 Ed. II. His grnndaiighter and lieir M, Sir Walter do Cneaek, ■who thus became of Killeen, anil obtained seisin thereof, 4 June (1351) 25 I'M. III. He was sum. to Pari. [I.] in (1371) 48 Ed. III., and in (1377, 1380, and 13811 1, 4, and 5 Sic It. His son and heir, Sir Lucas de Cusack, left a da. and !)., Joan, who m. Sir Christopher Plunkett, as under, j Barony [I ] J. CnitisToriiEn Plunkett, of Killeen and Rnthrognn, I 142G ? °"- Meatl> i s - anf ' • of Sir Richard PtuSKETT, of Rathregan,( h ) afad. (who was sum. to Pari. [I. ], in 1374), by Elizabeth, awe. his father about 137b', being then a minor, and was Kni/lilcd in 1391. He m. in 1403, Joan, da. and h, of Sir Lucas de Cusack, of Killeen, Dunsany and Gerard- stown, co. Meath, who brought to him that inheritance. He was Sheriff of co. Meath, and, having been of great service in the wars of Ireland, had, 5 Nov. 1426, a grant of 40 marks from the Crown, and was probably about that date cr. a Teerl 0 ) as LOR1V 1 ) KILLEEN [I.] His wife if. 4 March 1441. He d. 1445, and was bur. at Killeen. ( B ) M.I. II. 11-15. 2. CuRiSToniEn (Plunkett), Lord Killeen* [I.], grandson and h., being s. and h. of John Plunkett, 1st s. and h. ap. of the last Lord (but who d. v.p.), by Janet, da. of ( — ) Bellew. He accounted to the Exchequer in 1118 for debts due from his grandfather, lie Hi. Joanna, da. of (— ) Bellew, of Bellewstown. He d. 1462. III. 1462. 3. CnniSTOi'iiER, (Plunkett), Loud Killeen [I.], & and h., aged 22 in 1462, when he had livery of his father's lauds. He was Deputy Govkbhob [L] to the Lord Deputy Desmond (14C3-G7.) He m. before 1463, Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Sir William Weli.es, Lord Chancellor [I.], 1461, by (— ), da. of (— ) Barnewall, of Crickstown. He d. B.p., or s.p m.( r ) about 14'19. His widow m. James (Elk.mi.vo), Babm.v ov Slake [I.], who d. 1 191. ( a ) See " Remarks upon the ancient Baronage of Ireland " [Qy. by W. Lynch] Dublin, 1829, pp. 110-111. (b) An account of "The family of Plunket, Barons of Rathregan and Killeen," is given in " Lynch," pp. 266—276. '(<=) See vol. i, p. 171, note " c," tub " Athenry," for some observations On the early Irish Baronies as Peerage Dignities. ( d ) See vol. i, p. 172, note "f," sub "Athenry, "for sonic observation? on the words " Domitttu" and " Baro," as applied to the early Irish Baronies. ( 6 ) He founded a chantry at Killeen for four priests to pray for the souls of himself, his wife, Sir Richard Plunkett, Knt., Dame Elizabeth P. [doubtless his parents], John P., senior, John P., junior, Richard P., senior, and Richard P., junior. (') In " Lynch," p. 272, it is stated that he had female issue.
