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  • d. 1623
Anglo-Irish landowner who lived at Tristernagh (Co. Westmeath), the estate of a former monastery that went into disuse during the Dissolution.
Also Arzel Even.

Pinault (Georges) See: Goulven Pennaod

  • s. xx–xxi
  • 1744—1827
  • Britain, London, Utrecht, Göttingen
librarian, of Swiss origin, of the British Museum; author of a catalogue of manuscripts in the Cottonian collection

Pluincéad (Risdeard) See: Risteard Pluincéad

  • fl. 1662
  • Áth Truimm
Franciscan friar of Trim and compiler of a Latin-Irish dictionary.

Pluincéid (Oilibhéar) See: Oliver Plunkett

  • 1625–1681
  • County Meath, Rome, Ard Macha
Archbishop of Armagh. He was ordained in 1669, after spending considerable time as a student and cleric in Rome (1647–1669). He fell victim to the crisis over an alleged ‘popish plot’. Having been found guilty of high treason against the Crown, he was violently executed at Tyburn on 11 July 1681. In the 20th century, he was both beautified (1920) and canonised (1975).