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List of events
Events from the year 1580 in Ireland .
Incumbent
Events
Second Desmond Rebellion :
Thomas Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde , Sir
William Pelham and Sir
George Carew are sent to
Munster to subdue the rebels and destroy the Desmond lands in
Limerick ,
Cork and north
Kerry .
March –
Siege of Carrigafoyle Castle :
English troops under Sir William Pelham take the castle from Irish and
Spanish supporters of the Second Desmond Rebellion.
14 March –
Miler Magrath is deposed as
Roman Catholic
Bishop of Down and Connor by
Pope Gregory XIII for
heresy , having for a decade simultaneously held
bishoprics in the Protestant
Church of Ireland .
July –
Fiach McHugh O'Byrne from the
Wicklow Mountains launches a new phase of the Second Desmond Rebellion in the east.
25 August –
Battle of Glenmalure in the Second Desmond Rebellion: An Irish
Catholic force made up of the
Gaelic clans led by Fiach McHugh O'Byrne and
James Eustace, Viscount Baltinglass of
the Pale , defeat the
English Army under the
Lord Deputy of Ireland ,
Lord Grey , at the O'Byrne's mountain stronghold of
Glenmalure .
Francis Cosby is among the
English dead.
10 September – Italian and Spanish troops sent by
Pope Gregory XIII to aid the Second Desmond Rebellion and commanded by
Sebastiano di San Giuseppi land at
Smerwick on the
Dingle Peninsula .
7 October –
10 October –
Siege of Smerwick : The Papal forces are besieged at Dún an Óir by the English Army and surrender. At least 400 are
massacred on Lord Grey's orders.
[1]
[2]
Walter Ralegh is present.
William mac an Iarla Burke and his followers are
hanged outside the walls of
Galway by
William Óge Martyn ,
High Sheriff of County Galway , in person, who, aware that the
Mayor of Galway ,
Dominick Lynch , has a
pardon for Burke, prevents the Mayor from arriving in time to stop the executions.
[3]
Walter Ball (Alderman) became Mayor of Dublin. He is notorious for imprisoning his Catholic
mother (who died in jail) as part of the imposition of the Reformation in Ireland.
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