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1575 in Ireland
Events from the year
1575 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
Elizabeth I
Events
Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex
, has members of the clan
O'Neill
killed at
Banbridge
.
March 16
âÂÂ
Edmund O'Donnell
is
hanged, drawn and quartered
in
Cork
as a traitor, the first
Jesuit
executed by the English government.
May–August â drought.
May 22
âÂÂ
Elizabeth I of England
orders Essex to break off his enterprise of the
plantation
of
Antrim
. He will return to England at the end of the year.
June â Essex builds a bridge and fort at Blackwater (north of
Armagh
).
June 27
âÂÂ
Turlough Luineach O'Neill
submits to the English authorities and receives extensive grants of lands and permission to employ 300
Scottish
mercenaries
.
July 20
–26 âÂÂ
Rathlin Island Massacre
: English adventurers
Francis Drake
and
John Norreys
, acting for the Earl of Essex, lead an expedition that culminates in the massacre of 500 of the clan
MacDonnell
in a surprise raid on
Rathlin Island
.
August–September âÂÂ
Plague
in
Leinster
.
August 5
â Sir
Henry Sidney
is reappointed
Lord Deputy of Ireland
following the resignation of Sir
William FitzWilliam
.
Deaths
March 16
âÂÂ
Edmund O'Donnell
, Jesuit (b.
1542
)
November 27
â Sir
Peter Carew
, English adventurer in Ireland (b.
1514
?)
Christopher Barnewall
, statesman (b.
1522
)
Arts and literature
Approximate date â the manuscript now known as
Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10
is copied at Ballycumin,
County Roscommon
, by Aodh, Dubhthach and Torna of the
ÃÂ Maolconaire
family.
References