1331 in Ireland

Events

* "A hosting by the Connachtmen, both Foreigner and Gaidhel, into Munster, against Mac Conmara. Pledge and sway were gained by them on Mac Conmara. A church was burned by a party of the host, wherein were two score and one hundred persons, both noble and base and two priests were of them and those all were burned."
* "Ten of the people of Donnchadh the Swarthy, son of Mael-Shechlainn Carrach Mac Diarmata, were drowned on Loch-Teiched."
* January 21 Parliament at Dublin
* February 27 Anthony de Lucy appointed justicier
* March 3 William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, appointed lieutenant. Ordinances for Conduct of Irish government includes a decree that there should be one law for Irish and Anglo-Irish, except for betaghs
* April 21 Irish raid and capture Arklow
* c. [April 25 Irish raid Tallaght
* Irish raids in County Wexford.
* July 1 Irish Parliament meets at Dublin
* August Irish raid and capture Ferns
* August 16 Earl of Desmond captured by Justiciar at Limerick
* Edward III plans expedition to Ireland for 1332
* September Henry de Mandeville arrested
* Walter de Burgh defeats Tommaltach Mac Diarmata in Moylurg
* November Walter de Burgh arrested and imprisoned by the Earl of Ulster

Births

*4 October - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde, Lord Justice of Ireland (d.1382).

Deaths

* Tadhg mac Cathal mac Domnall Ua Conchobair "rested in Christ"

References

*"The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn", edited and translated with an Introduction, by Bernadette Williams, Four Courts Press, 2007. ISBN 978 1 84682 034 2, pp. 240-244.
*"A New History of Ireland VIII: A Chronology of Irish History to 1976", edited by T. W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne. Oxford, 1982. ISBN 0 19 821744 7.
*http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100001B/index.html
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*http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100010B/index.html