1538 in Ireland
This is a list of events from the year 1538 in Ireland.
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Incumbent
Events
- Dissolution of the Monasteries: the following establishments are among those suppressed:
- Timolin Priory (held by Edmund Eustas from 14 January).
- Ferns Abbey (abbot and canons leave 31 March).
- Navan Abbey (surrendered 19 July).
- Priory of All Hallows, Dublin.
- July 11 – Galway is visited by Lord Deputy of Ireland, Leonard Grey. This is the first visit of a King's Deputy to the town, and marks the start of closer relations between the sometimes-beleaguered town and the Anglo-Irish administration in Dublin. He is lavishly entertained and stays for seven days.
- December – the Franciscan Friary at Cashel is rented to Edmund Butler, Archbishop of Cashel.
- Newry Abbey becomes a secular collegiate church.
- Church of Ireland Kilkenny College is founded as Kilkenny Grammar School by Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, and his wife, Margaret, to replace the School of the Vicars Choral.
- Ulick na gCeann Burke deposes his uncle Richard Bacach Burke as The Clanricarde and Chief of the Name.
Deaths
- Richard Bacach Burke, the Clanricarde and Chief of the Name.
References
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