1601 in Ireland

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1601
in
Ireland

  • 1602
  • 1603
  • 1604
  • 1605
  • 1606
Centuries:
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1580s
  • 1590s
  • 1600s
  • 1610s
  • 1620s
See also:Other events of 1601
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1601 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events[]

  • January – Nine Years' War: John Óge Burke is captured, and later executed.
  • October 2Siege of Kinsale begins.
  • November 30 – Prince Hugh Roe O'Donnell, on his way to the Battle of Kinsale, visits and venerates a relic of the True Cross (Holy rood) on the Feast of St. Andrew, at Holy Cross Abbey.[1]
  • Moyry Castle built.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • April – Emon O'Reilly, King of East Breifne
  • June – John Óge Burke, rebel soldier.
  • November – James FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, exiled noble (b. c.1570)
  • Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde, noble.
  • John Chardon, Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor.

References[]

  1. ^ The Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tyrconnell (Beatha Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill) by Lughaidh O'Cleirigh (original Gaelic manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin), translated with notes by Rev. Denis Murphy, S.J., M.R.I.A., and published by Sealy, Bryers, & Walker, Dublin, 1893 (pages 304–307).


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