{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1647 }} Events from the year '''1647 in Ireland'''. ==Incumbent== *Monarch: Charles I ==Events== *July – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, surrenders Dublin to parliamentary forces under Michael Jones.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Moody, T. W. |editor2=Martin, F. X. |year=1967|title=The Course of Irish History|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Cork|page=372}}</ref> *August – Battle of Dungan's Hill, Confederate Ireland army intercepted on a march towards Dublin and destroyed by Parliamentary army. *September – Sack of Cashel: Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, slaughters the Confederate Ireland garrison at Cashel. The priest Theobald Stapleton suffers summary execution. Inchiquin goes on to devastate Catholic-held Munster. *November – Battle of Knocknanuss, Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin's Parliamentarian army inflicts crushing defeat on Confederate Ireland's Munster army.
==Births== *Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne, courtier and military commander (d. 1691)
==Deaths== *13 September – Theobald Stapleton, priest and writer, put to death in Sack of Cashel (b. 1589) *Garret Barry, soldier, served in the Eighty Years' War and the Irish Confederate Wars, military writer. *Col Ciotach, adventurer of Clan Donald, Laird of Colonsay (b. 1570) *Alasdair MacColla, Scottish/Irish soldier, son of Colla Ciotach, killed at the battle of Knocknanuss.
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