1647 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1647 in Ireland.

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 (d. 1691)

Deaths

• September 13 - Theobald Stapleton, priest and writer, put to death in Sack of Cashel (b. 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 (b. 1570)
• Alasdair MacColla, Scottish/Irish soldier, son of Colla Ciotach, killed at the battle of Knocknanuss.

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