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This is a list of events from the year1538 in Ireland.

• Lord:Henry VIII

• 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 byLord 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 atCashel is rented toEdmund Butler,Archbishop of Cashel.
• Newry Abbey becomes a secular collegiate church.
• Church of IrelandKilkenny College is founded as Kilkenny Grammar School byPiers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, and his wife,Margaret, to replace the School of the Vicars Choral.
• Ulick na gCeann Burke deposes his uncleRichard Bacach Burke as TheClanricarde andChief of the Name.^[1]
• A meeting between theO'Toole clan andcrown forces atthe Pale castle ofThreecastles Castle,County Wicklow ends in an altercation with deaths.^[2]

• Richard Bacach Burke, theClanricarde andChief of the Name.

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