1578 in Ireland

Centuries:	14th; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th;
Decades:	1550s; 1560s; 1570s; 1580s; 1590s;
See also:	Other events of 1578 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1578 in Ireland.

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In retaliation for the Massacre of Mullaghmast, Rory Óg Ó Moore, leader of the Ó Moore clan in County Laois, burns Carlow, but is hunted down and trapped.
The ship Emanuel, returning from Martin Frobisher's third voyage to Frobisher Bay, is wrecked at Ard na Caithne.^[1]
Barnabe Rich publishes Alarme to England [sic].

14 December – Joan Apsley, first wife of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (d. 1599)

^ Morison, Samuel Eliot (1986). The great explorers: the European discovery of America (3. [print.] ed.). New York: Oxford Univ. Pr. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-19-504222-1. Retrieved 22 November 2024.