1608 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

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• Following the Flight of the Earls and angered by land confiscations for the plantation of Ulster, Cahir O'Doherty sacked and burned Derry and killed the Governor.
• Cahir O'Doherty was killed near Kilmacrenan following a skirmish with a force under Sir Richard Wingfield.^[1] His decapitated head was displayed in Dublin for some time afterwards.
• Original license to distil granted to the Old Bushmills Distillery by King James I.

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• Cahir O'Doherty, last Gaelic Lord of Inishowen (b.1587).

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