1224 in Ireland

Centuries:	11th; 12th; 13th; 14th; 15th;
Decades:	1200s; 1210s; 1220s; 1230s; 1240s;
See also:	Other events of 1224 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1224 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

Richard Mór de Burgh claims the title Lord of Connaught on the basis of a grant to his father, and that Aedh Ua Conchobair (successor to his father Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht) has forfeited it.
Dominican Order set up in Ireland.^[1] They are the first mendicant friars in Ireland.^[2] At about this date, Lucas de Netterville, Archbishop of Armagh, founds a Dominican friary in Drogheda.
South Abbey, Youghal, the proto-friary of the Irish Province of the Observant Franciscans, is founded by Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly,^[3] dedicated to St. Nicholas.
Annals of Connacht begin.

Cú Ceanain Ó Con Ceanainn, King of Uí Díarmata.
Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, last independent King of Connacht (born 1153).^[2]
Muirghis Cananach Ua Conchobhair, Prince of Connacht, monk and poet.^[4]
Donnchadh Mor O Dalaigh, poet.^[2]
Gilla na Naemh Crom Ó Seachnasaigh, Lord of Cenél Áeda na hEchtge.
Simon Rochfort, Bishop of Meath.

^ Mac Annaidh, Séamas, ed. (2001). Illustrated Dictionary of Irish History. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. ISBN 0717135365.
^ ^a ^b ^c Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
^ Lewis, Samuel (1837). A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London: Lewis.
^ Annals of Loch Cé.