1601 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1601 in Ireland.
Events
- January - Nine Years' War: John Óge Burke is captured, and later executed.
- October 2 - Siege 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.
Deaths
- 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
- ↑ 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).