1600 in Ireland

Events from the year 1600 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
  • 14th
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
Decades:
  • 1580s
  • 1590s
  • 1600s
  • 1610s
  • 1620s
See also:Other events of 1600
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events
  • January – Nine Years' War against England is renewed by Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, with an invasion of Munster.[1]
  • 27 January – Colonel Richard Wingfield is made Marshal of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth.
  • 18 February – Nine Years' War: Rebel cavalry in Munster led by Hugh Maguire (Lord of Fermanagh) are intercepted and their leaders killed.
  • 15 May – Nine Years' War: Chief Niall Garbh Ó Domhnaill betrays the Irish alliance and allows Henry Docwra to land at Lough Foyle with an expeditionary force of 4,000 men. In a devastating blow to the rebels, Docwra sets up a series of fortifications along the River Foyle, cutting access between Tír Eoghain and Tyrconnell.
  • 20 September – 9 October: the Battle of Moyry Pass is fought. Lord Mountjoy's English forces eventually break through Hugh O'Neill's defences in County Armagh and establish a short-lived garrison at Mountnorris but later retreat.

Births
  • Aedh O'Rourke, son of Tadhg O'Rourke of West Breifne and Mary O'Donnell of Tyrconnell.
  • Heber MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d. 1650)
  • Terence Albert O'Brien, Roman Catholic Bishop of Emly, (d. 1651)
  • John Temple, judge and politician (d. 1677)
  • Approximate date
    • John Colgan, hagiographer and historian (d. c.1657)
    • James Dillon, Confederate officer (d. after 1669)
    • Piaras Feiritéar, poet and harpist (d. 1653)
    • Rory O'Moore, landowner, noble and rebel leader (d. 1655)

Deaths
  • 18 February – Hugh Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh and prominent rebel leader, is killed in Munster.
  • Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin, poet (b. 1550)

References
  1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 238–243. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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