1224 in Ireland

Events from the year 1224 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Lord: Henry III

Events

• Richard Mór de Burgh claims the title Lord of Connaught on the basis of a grant to his father, and that Aedh Ua Conchobair (successor to his father Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht) has forfeited it.
• Dominican Order set up in Ireland. They are the first mendicant friars in Ireland. At about this date, Lucas de Netterville, Archbishop of Armagh, founds a Dominican friary in Drogheda.
• South Abbey, Youghal, the proto-friary of the Irish Province of the Observant Franciscans, is founded by Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly, dedicated to St. Nicholas.
• Annals of Connacht begin.

Deaths

• Cú Ceanain Ó Con Ceanainn, King of Uí Díarmata.
• Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, last independent King of Connacht (born 1153).
• Muirghis Cananach Ua Conchobhair, Prince of Connacht, monk and poet.
• Donnchadh Mor O Dalaigh, poet.
• Gilla na Naemh Crom Ó Seachnasaigh, Lord of Cenél Áeda na hEchtge.
• Simon Rochfort, Bishop of Meath.

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