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Events from the year1565 in Ireland.

• Monarch:Elizabeth I

• Shane O'Neill, at this time claiming allegiance toElizabeth I of England, defeats MacDonnells atGlenshesk.^[1]
• Butlers and Fitzgeralds fight a pitched battle against each other at theBattle of Affane (February) inCounty Waterford.Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan wounds and takes prisonerGerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond and drives his followers from the field.John Plunket is appointed to inquire into the causes of the dispute.
• Shane O'Neill marches from Antrim through the mountains byClogh to the neighbourhood ofBallycastle, where he routs the clanMacDonnell of Antrim and Dunnyveg at theBattle of Glentasie (2 May) and takesSorley Boy MacDonnell andJames MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg, prisoner, the latter dying of wounds soon afterwards.Ballycastle Castle andDunluce Castle also fall to him.
• SirHenry Sidney takes up the post ofLord Deputy of Ireland (October).
• Connacht isshired intocountiesClare (formerlyThomond),Galway,Leitrim (separated fromRoscommon),Mayo andGalway.
• Donald McCarthy Mór is created 1st (and only)Earl of Clancare and Baron Valencia in thePeerage of Ireland (24 June) as part of thesurrender and regrant of Ireland to the English Crown.
• Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond, surrenders his claim to the lordship ofThomond on condition of receivingCorcomroe.
• Miler Magrath is appointedRoman CatholicBishop of Down and Connor (12 October; consecrated 4 November).
• First everJesuit school is established atLimerick byDavid Wolfe,apostolic visitor of the Roman Catholic Church, but this is dispersed by the royal authorities in October.
• Possible date of introduction of thepotato to Ireland byJohn Hawkins (after September).

• Con MacShane O'Neill,flaith (d.1630)

• January 2 –Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond, Norman-Irish noblewoman and heiress (b. 1509/14)
• May 2 –Angus MacDonnell, son ofAlexander MacDonnell.
• c. May –James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg, Scoto-Irish chieftain.

• Canny, Nicholas P. (1976).The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: a pattern established, 1565–76. Hassocks: Harvester Press.ISBN 0-85527-034-9.

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