1601 in Ireland

none November 2025 April 2022 1601 Events from the year 1601 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Elizabeth I Events January – Nine Years' War: John Óge Burke is captured, and later executed. September 19 – Fourth Spanish Armada makes landfall at Kinsale. October 2 – Siege of Kinsale by Spanish forces begins. November 30 – Prince Hugh Roe O'Donnell, on his way to the Battle of Kinsale, visits and venerates a relic of the True Cross (Holy rood) on the Feast of St. Andrew, at Holy Cross Abbey.The Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tyrconnell (Beatha Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill) by Lughaidh O'Cleirigh (original Gaelic manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin), translated with notes by Rev. Denis Murphy, S.J., M.R.I.A., and published by Sealy, Bryers, & Walker, Dublin, 1893 (pages 304–307). December 6 – The Battle of Castlehaven is fought off the south coast of Ireland as six Spanish navy ships led by General Pedro de Zubiaur are intercepted by an English fleet of four warships led and commanded by Sir Richard Levenson. Two of the Spanish ships are sunk and the other four are run aground.Thomas Stafford Pacata Hibernia; or, A history of the wars in Ireland, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II 1896 Downy London Moyry Castle built. Deaths April – Emon O'Reilly, King of East Breifne June – John Óge Burke, rebel soldier. November – James FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, exiled noble (b. c.1570) Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde, noble. John Chardon, Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor. References 1601 Category:1600s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 17th century in Ireland