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- ↑ Bishop Patrick Joseph Plunkett Catholic Hierarchy.
- ↑ Patrick Joseph Plunkett by C.J. Woods, Dictionary of Irish Biography.
- ↑ Bishop Patrick J. Plunkett, 1779-1827 Navan & District Historical Society.