1608 in Ireland
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Events
- April - Following the Flight of the Earls and angered by land confiscations for the plantation of Ulster, Sir Cahir O'Doherty, Lord of Inishowen, sacks and burns Derry and kills the Governor, Sir George Paulet.[1]
- 5 July - Cahir O'Doherty is shot dead near Kilmacrenan in a skirmish with an English force under Sir Richard Wingfield.[2] His decapitated head is displayed in Dublin for some time afterwards.[3]
- County Longford is transferred from Connacht to Leinster, has its boundaries defined and is divided into six baronies.
- At about this date, Randal MacDonnell establishes a model town around Dunluce Castle.[4]
- Original license to distil whiskey granted to the Old Bushmills Distillery by King James I.
Births
- Probable date - William Tirry, priest (martyred 1654).
Deaths
- 19 April - Sir George Paulet, English soldier and Governor of Derry (born 1553).
- 23 April - Edmund FitzGibbon, The White Knight (born 1552?).
- 5 July - Sir Cahir O'Doherty, last Gaelic Lord of Inishowen and rebel leader (born 1587).
References
- ↑ Bagwell, Richard (1885-1900). "Paulet, George". Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
- ↑ "Flight of the Earls". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
- ↑ Breen, Aidan (2004). "O'Doherty, Sir Cahir (1587–1608)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20546. Retrieved 2012-07-27. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ The News Letter (Belfast) 2011-06-18 p. 3.
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