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Events from the year1586 in Ireland.

• Monarch:Elizabeth I

• 23 September –Battle of Ardnaree inCounty Mayo:English troops under SirRichard Bingham, governor ofConnacht, defeat an Irish-Scottish mercenary army^[1] – led by the brothersDonald Gorm MacDonald of Carey andAlexander Carragh MacDonald of Glenarm (both of whom are killed) – fighting on behalf of the rebelMac Philbins andBurkes.
• c. December? –Richard Creagh,Roman CatholicArchbishop of Armagh, dies a prisoner in theTower of London.^[2]
• County Longford is shired, separating it fromWestmeath.
• Robert Gardiner is appointedLord Chief Justice of Ireland.
• SirEdward Waterhouse is appointedChancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland.
• Elizabeth I of England andJames VI of Scotland agree in theTreaty of Berwick that theMacDonnell family, claimants to theGlens of Antrim, have the right to stay in Ireland.

• Antony Hickey,Franciscan theologian (d.1641)
• William St Leger,Anglo-Irish landowner and military commander (d.1642)

• 5 May –Henry Sidney,Lord Deputy of Ireland (b.1529)
• c. December? –Richard Creagh,Roman CatholicArchbishop of Armagh (b. c.1523)

• 1586 in Ireland
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