1245 in Ireland
List of events in the year 1245
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Events from the year 1245 in Ireland.
Leadership
Events
- An earthquake destroys the Cathedral of Down which was established by John de Courcy with generous endowments to the Benedictines from Chester in England in 1183.[citation needed]
- William Welwood becomes Lord Chancellor of Ireland.[2]
- Maurice Fitzgerald, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, is generally credited with the establishment of the medieval European-style town and port of Sligo, building Sligo Castle in 1245.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Carpenter, David A. (1990). The minority of Henry III. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07239-8.
- ^ O'Flanagan, James Roderick (1870). The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria. Vol. 1. Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 19.
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