1651 in Ireland

none November 2025 1651 Events from the year 1651 in Ireland. Events January - Edmund Ludlow lands in Ireland as lieutenant-general of horse and second-in-command to Henry Ireton. DeGryter website, Conquest and Land in Cromwellian Ireland, 1649-1642, by John Cunningham https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782040002-005 June - restart of the siege of Limerick by English Parliamentarian troops under Ireton. Your Irish website, The Siege of Limerick in 1651 Military Maps website, Map of the siege of Limerick 1651 July - Battle of Knocknaclashy. Irish force trying to relieve Limerick is routed. August - start of the siege of Galway: an English Parliamentarian army under Charles Coote blockades the city. JStor website, The Siege and Surrender of Galway 1651-1652, article by Eamon P. Duffy, published in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 1983/1984, Vol. 39, page 115 October 27 - siege of Limerick: Hugh Dubh O'Neill surrenders Limerick after part of the English Royalist garrison mutinies. The soldiers are permitted to march unarmed to Galway but some leaders are executed. November 26 - Henry Ireton dies of fever and is succeeded in command by Edmund Ludlow. Deaths October 31 - executions by the English Parliamentarians after the surrender of Limerick: Terence Albert O'Brien, Roman Catholic Bishop of Emly (b.1600) Dictionary of Irish Biography website, O'Brien, Terence Albert (Muiris Ó Briain Aradh), article by Ó Floinn, Tomás S. R. Dominic Fanning, Alderman. November 26 - Henry Ireton, English Parliamentarian commander (b.1611) Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret, landowner and former Irish Confederate military commander (b.1578) References 1651 Category:1650s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 17th century in Ireland