1588 in Ireland

none February 2015 1588 Events from the year 1588 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Elizabeth I Events 28 June – Sir Valentine Browne purchases estates, including the Lakes of Killarney, from the estate of Donald Maccarty, 1st Earl of Clancare. Autumn/Winter – at least 20 ships of the retreating Spanish Armada get washed up on the Irish coast and hundreds of sailors die. MacSweeney Bannagh gives assistance to La Girona at Killybegs but on 26 October she is wrecked off County Antrim with only 9 survivors from an estimated 1300 onboard (including survivors from earlier wrecks). Brian O'Rourke assists at least eighty survivors – including Francisco de Cuellar – to depart the country. Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork and father of Robert Boyle, arrives in Ireland as an entrepreneur. Lord Deputy William Fitzwilliam becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland, succeeding John Perrot in that office.Nichols John John Nichols's The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Volume V: Appendices, Bibliographies, and Index 2014 OUP Oxford 9780199551422 384 https://books.google.com/books?id=NlacAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA384 en Births Luke Wadding, Franciscan friar and historian (d. 1657) References 1588 Category:1580s in Ireland Ireland Category:Years of the 16th century in Ireland