Peg Plunkett was an Irish brothel keeper in Dublin who wrote her memoirs in three volumes.
10 Facts About Peg Plunkett
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Margaret Plunkett was born in the Irish county of Westmeath around 1727.
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In Dublin the teenage Peg Plunkett became pregnant and she was kept by the child's father until the child died.
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Amongst these was a Mr Leeson whom Peg Plunkett did not marry but she did adopt his surname.
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Peg Plunkett never revealed the identity of this man but he is believed to have been Joseph Leeson, 2nd Earl of Milltown.
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Peg Plunkett became head of her own household when she started her first brothel with a friend, Sally Hayes, in Drogheda Street in Dublin.
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Peg Plunkett was successful in court against Richard Crosbie, the leader of a notorious gang known as the Pinking Dindies.
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Crosbie was sent to jail for an attack on Peg Plunkett that ended a pregnancy and caused another of her children to die; it was said that Crosbie could have faced a murder charge.
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Peg Plunkett took her exploiters to the courts on more than one occasion and she was said to enjoy local support because her business attracted customers to other nearby businesses.
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Peg Plunkett was said to have had a secret pension from the Irish government at one point.