1643 in Ireland

Events from the year 1643 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
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  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1620s
  • 1630s
  • 1640s
  • 1650s
  • 1660s
See also:Other events of 1643
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: Charles I

Events
  • March 18 – Irish Confederate Wars: Battle of New Ross: James Butler, Earl of Ormonde, defeats Thomas Preston and a numerically superior Irish Confederate army north of the town of New Ross.
  • June 4 – Confederate Wars: Battle of Funcheon Ford: Catholic Confederation commander James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven's horsemen surprise and rout hundreds of Baron Inchiquin's men near Castlelyons in County Cork.[1][2][3]
  • September – Confederate Wars: "Cessation" (i.e. ceasefire) arranged by Ormond places the greater part of Ireland into the hands of the Catholic Confederation.
  • An Calbhach mac Aedh Ó Conchobhair Donn, The Ó Conchubhair Donn, Chief of the Name of the Clan Ó Conchubhair, is popularly inaugurated as King.

Births

Deaths
  • September 15 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1566)
  • Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, chronicler and chief author of the Annals of the Four Masters (b. c. 1590)

References
  1. Bagwell, Richard. "O'Brien, Murrough (1614–1674)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. XVI. London: Smith, Elder. p. 321. Cites Castlehaven's Memoirs, p. 40.
  2. Smith, Charles (1815). The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork. Vol. III. pp. 146–8.
  3. "Battles of the Eleven Years War". Inchiquin. Retrieved 10 July 2012.


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