1647 in Ireland

Events

• July - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde surrenders Dublin to parliamentary forces under Michael Jones.
• August - Battle of Dungan's Hill, Confederate Ireland army intercepted on a march towards Dublin and destroyed by Parliamentary army.
• September - Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin slaughters garrison at Cashel and subsequently devastates Catholic held Munster.
• November - Battle of Knocknanuss, Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin's Parliamentarian army inflicts crushing defeat on Confederate Ireland’s Munster army.

Births

Deaths

• 13 September - Theobald Stapleton, priest and writer, put to death at Cashel (b.1589).
• Garret Barry, soldier, served in the Eighty Years' War and the Irish Confederate Wars, military writer.
• Col Ciotach, adventurer of Clan Donald, Laird of Colonsay (b.1570).
• Alasdair MacColla, Scottish/Irish soldier, son of Colla Ciotach, killed at the battle of Knocknanuss.

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