1492 in Ireland

Events from the year 1492 in Ireland.

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Decades:
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See also:Other events of 1492
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent

Events
  • March – pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck is brought from Cork to Harfleur by the fleet of Charles VIII of France.[1]
  • The Butler – Fitzgerald dispute is resolved at the 'door of reconciliation' in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
  • Archbishop Walter Fitzsimon is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland.
  • James Ormonde is appointed Lord Treasurer of Ireland.
  • Alexander Plunket is appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Births

Deaths
  • October 25 – Thaddeus McCarthy, Bishop of Ross, then Bishop of Cork and Cloyne (b. c. 1455)[2]
  • James Fleming, 7th Baron Slane, member of the Parliament of Ireland (from sweating sickness).[3]
  • Aedh Mac Fhlannchaidh, brehon lawyer and Ollamh of Thomond.

References
  1. Gunn, S. J. (2004). "Warbeck, Perkin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28669. Retrieved 2012-03-08. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Jones, Timothy Willem; Matthews-Jones, Lucinda (2016). Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things. Springer. p. 50. ISBN 9781137540638.
  3. Annals of Ulster, vol.iii, ed. B. MacCarthy, Dublin, 1895, pp. 358ff; Annals of Connacht, ed. A. M. Freeman, Dublin, 1944, pp. 594ff.
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