1647 in Ireland
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Events
- July - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, surrenders Dublin to parliamentary forces under Michael Jones.[1]
- August - Battle of Dungan's Hill, Confederate Ireland army intercepted on a march towards Dublin and destroyed by Parliamentary army.
- September - Sack of Cashel: Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, slaughters the Confederate Ireland garrison at Cashel. The priest Theobald Stapleton suffers summary execution. Inchiquin goes on to devastate Catholic-held Munster.
- November - Battle of Knocknanuss, Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin's Parliamentarian army inflicts crushing defeat on Confederate Ireland's Munster army.
Births
- Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne, courtier and military commander (died 1691).
Deaths
- 13 September - Theobald Stapleton, priest and writer, put to death in Sack of Cashel (born 1589).
- Garret Barry, soldier, served in the Eighty Years' War and the Irish Confederate Wars, military writer.
- Col Ciotach, adventurer of Clan Donald, Laird of Colonsay (born 1570).
- Alasdair MacColla, Scottish/Irish soldier, son of Colla Ciotach, killed at the battle of Knocknanuss.
References
- ↑ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., ed. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 372.
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