• January –
Nine Years' War:
John Óge Burke is captured, and later executed. •
September 19 -
4th Spanish Armada makes landfall at
Kinsale. •
October 2 –
Siege of Kinsale 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. •
Moyry Castle built. ==Deaths==