1601 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1601 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

Elizabeth I

Events

• January – Nine Years' War: John Óge Burke is captured, and later executed.
• October 2 – Siege of Kinsale begins.
• November 30 – Prince Hugh Roe O'Donnell, on his way to the Battle of Kinsale, visits and venerates a relic of the True Cross (Holy rood) on the Feast of St. Andrew, at Holy Cross Abbey.^[1]
• Moyry Castle built.

Deaths

• April – Emon O'Reilly, King of East Breifne
• June – John Óge Burke, rebel soldier.
• November – James FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, exiled noble (b. c.1570)
• Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde, noble.
• John Chardon, Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor.

Notes and References

1. The Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tyrconnell (Beatha Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill) by Lughaidh O'Cleirigh (original Gaelic manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin), translated with notes by Rev. Denis Murphy, S.J., M.R.I.A., and published by Sealy, Bryers, & Walker, Dublin, 1893 (pages 304–307).