Events from the year 1539 in Ireland.
Incumbent
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Lord
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:
Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his Wives of Henry VIII, six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. ...
Events
*The
Geraldine League is founded by
Manus O'Donnell
Manus O'Donnell ( Irish: ''Maghnas Ó Domhnaill'' or ''Manus Ó Domhnaill''; 1490 – 9 February 1563) was a Gaelic Irish lord and King of Tyrconnell. After his father Hugh Dubh's death in 1537, Manus succeeded as Tyrconnell's ruler.The Edi ...
and
Conn O'Neill and begins its invasion of
The Pale
The Pale ( Irish: ''An Pháil'') or the English Pale (' or ') was the part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the Late Middle Ages. It had been reduced by the late 15th century to an area along the east coast s ...
.
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Dissolution of the Monasteries continues including the start of suppression of those within The Pale.
Establishments surrendered include:
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Ardee
Ardee (; , ) is a town and townland in County Louth, Ireland. It is located at the intersection of the N2, N52, and N33 roads. The town shows evidence of development from the thirteenth century onward but as a result of the continued develo ...
Priory Hospital (6 December) and White Friars Priory.
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Arklow
Arklow ( ; ; ) is a town in County Wicklow on the southeast coast of Ireland. The town is overlooked by Ballymoyle Hill. It was founded by the Vikings in the ninth century. Arklow was the site of one of the Battle of Arklow, bloodiest battles ...
Priory.
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Athboy
Athboy () is a small agricultural town located in County Meath. The town is located on the ''Yellow Ford River'', in wooded country near the County Westmeath border. It is around 15 km west of Navan and 50 km north-west of Dublin. T ...
Friary.
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Athy
Athy ( ; ) is a market town at the meeting of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in south-west County Kildare, Ireland, 72 kilometres southwest of Dublin. A population of 11,035 (as of the 2022 census) made it the sixth largest town in Kil ...
Priory (30 April).
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Bangor Abbey
Bangor Abbey was established by Saint Comgall in 558 in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland and was famous for its learning and austere rule. It is not to be confused with the slightly older abbey in Wales on the site of Bangor Cathedral.
Hi ...
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Cloncurry
Cloncurry is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. It is informally known by local people as The Curry. Cloncurry is the administrative centre of the Shire of Cloncurry.
Cloncurry is known as the ''Friendl ...
Friary (30 April).
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Clonmines
Clonmines is a civil parish and townland in the Bannow Bay area of County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the site of "the finest example in Ireland of a deserted village, deserted ancient borough, medieval borough". It is situated in th ...
Friary.
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Dundalk
Dundalk ( ; ) is the county town of County Louth, Ireland. The town is situated on the Castletown River, which flows into Dundalk Bay on the north-east coast of Ireland, and is halfway between Dublin and Belfast, close to and south of the bor ...
Priory Hospital (23 November).
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Enniscorthy
Enniscorthy () is the second-largest town in County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is located on the picturesque River Slaney and in close proximity to the Blackstairs Mountains and Ireland's longest beach, Curracloe.
The Plac ...
Abbey and Priory.
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Fore Abbey
Fore Abbey () is the ruins of a Benedictine and Early Gaelic 7th century Abbey with associated Mill, Anchorite's Cell, Holy Wells and a structure associated with St. Féichín,
all situated to the north of Lough Lene in County Westmeath, adja ...
(27 November).
**Graney Abbey, Co. Kildare (7 February).
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Grey Abbey, Kildare
Grey Abbey () is a ruined Franciscan abbey/monastery in County Kildare, Ireland. Founded in 1260, the Kildare poems were likely written in the abbey.
History
The abbey was founded in 1260 by William de Vesci, however it was completed by Mauri ...
(30 April).
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White Abbey, Kildare (April).
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Kells Monastery, Co. Meath.
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Kilcullen
Kilcullen (), formally Kilcullen Bridge, is a small town on the River Liffey in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Its population of 3,815 at the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census made it the 13th largest settlement in County Kilda ...
Abbey (by 30 April).
**Killodry Priory.
**Knock Abbey, Co. Louth.
**Lismullin Priory, Co. Meath.
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Louth Louth may refer to:
Australia
*Hundred of Louth, a cadastral unit in South Australia
* Louth, New South Wales, a town
* Louth Bay, a bay in South Australia
** Louth Bay, South Australia, a town and locality
Canada
* Louth, Ontario
Ireland
* Cou ...
Priory (20 November).
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Mellifont Abbey
Mellifont Abbey (, literally 'the Big Monastery'), was a Cistercians, Cistercian abbey located close to Drogheda in County Louth, Ireland. It was the first abbey of the order to be built in Ireland. In 1152, it hosted the Synod of Kells-Mellifo ...
(23 July).
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Mullingar
Mullingar ( ; ) is the county town of County Westmeath in Ireland. It is the third most populous town in the Midland Region, Ireland, Midland Region, with a population of 22,667 in the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census.
The Counties of M ...
Priory (28 November).
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Naas
Naas ( ; or ) is the county town of County Kildare in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In 2022, it had a population of 26,180, making it the largest town in County Kildare (ahead of Newbridge, County Kildare, Newbridge) and the List of urban ar ...
Priory (26 July).
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Navan
Navan ( ; , meaning "the Cave") is the county town and largest town of County Meath, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is at the confluence of the River Boyne and Leinster Blackwater, Blackwater, around 50 km northwest of Dublin. At the ...
Abbey.
**Odder Priory, Co. Meath.
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Portrane
Portrane or Portraine () is a small seaside village located three kilometres from the town of Donabate in Fingal, County Dublin in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Barony (Ireland), barony of Nethercross in the north of the county.
P ...
Priory.
**Priory Hospital of St. John the Baptist,
Drogheda
Drogheda ( , ; , meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin. It is located on the Dublin–Belfast corridor on the east coast of Ireland, mostly in County Louth ...
(26 July).
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Priory Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Newtown
Trim
Trim or TRIM may refer to:
Cutting
* Cutting or trimming small pieces off something to remove them
** Book trimming, a stage of the publishing process
** Pruning, trimming as a form of pruning often used on trees
Decoration
* Trim (sewing), or ...
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Rosbercon Abbey
Rosbercon Abbey was a Dominican Abbey at Rosbercon, County Kilkenny (Rosbercon is now in County Wexford). Founded in 1267, it was suppressed in 1539, and allowed to fall into ruin. A fragment of the Abbey survived as late as the 1820s, but no tra ...
(20 June).
**St. Catherine's Priory, Co. Dublin (25 June).
**St. Catherine's Priory,
Waterford
Waterford ( ) is a City status in Ireland, city in County Waterford in the South-East Region, Ireland, south-east of Ireland. It is located within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster. The city is situated at the head of Waterford H ...
.
**St. John the Baptist Hospital, Dublin.
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St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin (28 October).
**St. Mary's Carmelite Friary, Dublin (3 August).
**St. Saviour Dominican Friary, Dublin.
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Skreen
Skreen () is a small village and parish in County Sligo, Ireland. The village is in a civil parish of the same name.
History
St Adomnán, the first biographer of St Columba (Colmcille) and one of his successors at Iona, first served as abbot ...
Friary.
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Termonfeckin
Termonfeckin or Termonfechin () is a small village and townland in County Louth, Ireland. It is within a civil parish of the same name, and is north-east of Drogheda. The population of the village almost quadrupled in the period between the 199 ...
Abbey.
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Tintern Abbey (County Wexford) (seized 25 July).
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Tipperary Friary (7 April).
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Tristernagh Abbey
Tristernagh Abbey (, IPA: ˈmˠanʲəʃtʲəɾʲˈhɾʲɪsˠt̪ˠəɾˠn̪ˠiː), also known as the Priory of Kilbixy or Kilbisky, Tristernagh Priory, or the priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Tristernagh, is a ruined Augustinian monastery ...
(by 10 December).
*Lands at
Monkstown, County Dublin
Monkstown (), historically known as ''Carrickbrennan'' (), is a suburb on the southside, Dublin, southside of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. It is on the coast, between Blackrock, Dublin, Blackrock an ...
, granted to Sir John Travers, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland.
Births
Deaths
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26 August –
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (26 August 1539) also known as Red Piers ( Irish ''Piers Ruadh''), was from the Polestown branch of the Butler family of Ireland. In the succession crisis at the death of Thomas Butler, 7th ...
,
Lord Treasurer
The Lord High Treasurer was an English government position and has been a British government position since the Acts of Union of 1707. A holder of the post would be the third-highest-ranked Great Officer of State in England, below the Lord ...
(b. c.
1467
Year 1467 ( MCDLXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* June 15 – Philip the Good is succeeded as Duke of Burgundy, by Charles the Bold.
* October 29 – Battle of ...
)
References
1530s in Ireland
Ireland
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Years of the 16th century in Ireland
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