Elizabeth Mary Margaret Burke-Plunkett, Countess of Fingall (1862–1944), was born in Moycullen, a daughter of George Edmond Burke of Danesfield and his wife Theresa Quin.

Lady Fingall befriended unionists such as Field Marshal The 1st Earl Haig and Chief Secretary George Wyndham and also nationalist leaders such as Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, as well as activists like the cooperative pioneer Sir Horace Plunkett.

[4] She established a famous literary salon; for many years she was "at home" every Thursday at Earlsfort House to the leading figures in Dublin intellectual circles.

[6] A friendship with Máire Ní Chinnéide, forged through theatrical circles, led to her accepting the patronage of Camogie Association of Ireland from 1910 to 1923.

She served largely in an honorary role attending a few meetings of what was then known as Cualacht Luithchleas na mBan Gaedheal.