1538 in Ireland
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This is a list of events from the year 1538 in Ireland.
Incumbent
[edit]Events
[edit]- Dissolution of the Monasteries: the following establishments are among those suppressed:
- Timolin Priory (held by Edmund Eustas from 14 January).
- Ferns Abbey (abbot and canons leave 31 March).
- Navan Abbey (surrendered 19 July).
- Priory of All Hallows, Dublin.
- July 11 – Galway is visited by Lord Deputy of Ireland, Leonard Grey. This is the first visit of a King's Deputy to the town, and marks the start of closer relations between the sometimes-beleaguered town and the Anglo-Irish administration in Dublin. He is lavishly entertained and stays for seven days.
- December – the Franciscan Friary at Cashel is rented to Edmund Butler, Archbishop of Cashel.
- Newry Abbey becomes a secular collegiate church.
- Church of Ireland Kilkenny College is founded as Kilkenny Grammar School by Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, and his wife, Margaret, to replace the School of the Vicars Choral.
- Ulick na gCeann Burke deposes his uncle Richard Bacach Burke as The Clanricarde and Chief of the Name.[1]
- A meeting between the O'Toole clan and crown forces at the Pale castle of Threecastles Castle, County Wicklow ends in an altercation with deaths.[2]
Deaths
[edit]- Richard Bacach Burke, the Clanricarde and Chief of the Name.
References
[edit]- ↑ Beresford, David (October 2009). "Burke, Ulick (de Burgh, Uilleag) ('Uilleag na gCeann')". DIB.IE. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
- ↑ Byrne, Vincent (2003). The Four Stone Tree. A History of Blessington. Blessington: Blessington Family & Local History Group. p. 11. ISBN 0-9546248-0-7.
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