Old Connaught House, Shankill, Co Dublin – apartments 

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London. 

p. 228. “(Plunkett, B/PB) A plain early C19 Classical house.” 

William Conyngham Plunket was the son of Thomas Plunket (1723-1778), Archbishop, and his wife Mary Conyngham (1735-1838). The 1st Baron Plunket married Catherine McCausland (d. 1821). Their son Reverend Thomas Span Plunket succeeded as 2nd Baron Plunket, and became Bishop of Tuam, Killaly and Achonry. He married Louisa Jane Foster of Ballymascanlon in County Louth.

His brother John Span Plunket (1793-1871) succeeded as 3rd Baron Plunket. He married Charlotte Bushe, daughter of Charles Kendall Bushe (1767-1843).

Their son William Conyngham Plunket succeeded as 4th Baron Plunket of Newton, and he became Archbishop of Dublin. He married Anne Lee Guinness, daughter of Benjamin Lee Guinness (1798-1868).