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1642 in Ireland 
Summary
Events from the year 1642 in Ireland.
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- February – English Protestant refugees are massacred at Shrule by Edmond Bourke's soldiers.
- 19 March – the citizens of Galway seize an English naval ship and close the town gates in support of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
- 26 March – Siege of Drogheda broken by English reinforcements.[1]
- 14 April – Battle of Kilrush: English troops under the James Butler, Earl of Ormonde defeat Irish rebels under James's cousin, Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret.
- July – Battle of Liscarroll: Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, leading an English force, routs an Irish rebel army under Garret Barry advancing on Cork.
- 4 August – Alexander Forbes, 10th Lord Forbes, relieves Forthill and besieges Galway.
- c. August – Covenanter Campbell soldiers of the Argyll's Foot, encouraged by their commanding officer Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck, massacre the Catholic MacDonald residents of Rathlin Island.[2][3]
- 7 September – Lord Forbes raises his unsuccessful siege of Galway.
- October – largely-Catholic Royalist Confederate Ireland established, based in Kilkenny; start of the Irish Confederate Wars.[4]
- 24 October – the first Confederate Assembly is held in Kilkenny where it sets up a provisional government.[4]
- c. 14 November – the Confederate Assembly elects a Supreme Council.[4]
- The Presbytery of Ulster, a predecessor of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, is created by chaplains of the Presbyterian Scottish army in Ulster.
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- 7 February – William Bedell, Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore (b. 1571)
- 6 June – Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby, peer and Governor of King's County.
- 29 September – David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, dies of wounds received at the Battle of Liscarroll (b. 1604)
References edit
- ^ Bernard, Nicholas (1736). The Whole Proceedings of the Siege of Drogheda. Dublin: R. Reilly for S. Hyde. p. 9.
- ^ Royle, Trevor (2004). Civil War: The Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638–1660. London: Abacus. p. 143. ISBN 0-349-11564-8.
- ^ "The Carolingian Era". MacDonnell of Leinster Association. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ^ a b c Meehan, C. P. (1846). The Confederation of Kilkenny. Dublin: James Duffy.