1642, ireland, events, from, year, 1641, 1640, 1639, 1638, 1637, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1646, 1647centuries, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19thdecades, 1620s, 1630s, 1640s, 1650s, 1660ssee, also, other, events, 1642list, years, ireland, contents, incumbent, events, birth. Events from the year 1642 in Ireland 1641 1640 1639 1638 1637 1642 in Ireland 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647Centuries 15th 16th 17th 18th 19thDecades 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660sSee also Other events of 1642List of years in Ireland Contents 1 Incumbent 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 ReferencesIncumbent editMonarch Charles IEvents editFebruary 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 Births editThis section is empty You can help by adding to it July 2010 Deaths edit7 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 nbsp This Ireland related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1642 in Ireland amp oldid 1151838746, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
