1245 in Ireland
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Events from the year1245 in Ireland.
Leadership[edit]
Events[edit]
- An earthquake destroys the Cathedral of Down which was established byJohn de Courcywith generous endowments to the Benedictines from Chester in England in1183.[citation needed]
- William Welwood becomesLord Chancellor of Ireland.[2]
- Maurice Fitzgerald,the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, is generally credited with the establishment of the medieval European-style town and port of Sligo, buildingSligo Castlein 1245.[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ^Carpenter, David A. (1990).The minority of Henry III.Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press.ISBN978-0-520-07239-8.
- ^O'Flanagan, James Roderick (1870).The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria.Vol. 1. Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 19.