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1583 in Ireland
Events from the year
1583 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
Elizabeth I
Events
Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond
, assumes command of the Crown forces, contains remaining activists in the
Second Desmond Rebellion
to
West Cork
and
Kerry
and persuades many to surrender.
Dermot O'Hurley
, appointed
Archbishop of Cashel
in
1581
, lands on Holmpatrick Strand in
County Dublin
.
September â fugitive
Roman Catholic
priest
Maurice MacKenraghty
is surprised on
Sliabh Luachra
by Lord Roche's
gallowglass
es, handed over to the Earl of Ormond and sent to prison at
Clonmel
.
8 October â archbishop
Dermot O'Hurley
is arrested and imprisoned in
Dublin Castle
.
11 November
Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond
, is killed at Glenaginty in the
Slieve Mish Mountains
(near
Tralee
in County Kerry) by the Moriarty clan of Castledrum on the
Dingle Peninsula
, bringing an end to the
Desmond Rebellions
and resulting in the extinction of the Desmond palatinate.
John na Seamar Burke
is ambushed and killed by his brother Ulick.
Swords Castle
briefly occupied by
Dutch
Protestants
.
Births
Richard Nugent, 1st Earl of Westmeath
, landowner and politician (k.
1642
)
Deaths
February âÂÂ
Nicholas Skerrett
, exiled
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Tuam
.
11 November
John na Seamar Burke
, rebel.
Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond
, rebel.
December âÂÂ
Thomas Lancaster
,
Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
.
References