1245 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1245 in Ireland.

Leadership

• Lord

Henry III^[1]

Events

• An earthquake destroys the Cathedral of Down which was established by John de Courcy with generous endowments to the Benedictines from Chester in England in 1183.
• William Welwood becomes Lord Chancellor of Ireland.^[2]
• Maurice Fitzgerald, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, is generally credited with the establishment of the medieval European-style town and port of Sligo, building Sligo Castle in 1245.

Notes and References

1. Book: Carpenter, David A. . The minority of Henry III . 1990 . Univ. of California Press . 978-0-520-07239-8 . Berkeley, Calif..
2. Book: O'Flanagan, James Roderick . The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria . Longmans, Green, and Company . 1870 . 1 . 19 . en.