...in the southwest, led by Donagh MacCarthy, …
Years: 1642 - 1642
January
...in the southwest, led by Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry, who had initially raised an armed force of his tenants and dependents to try and maintain law and order but had been prompted to join the rebellion by the atrocities committed by English President of Munster, William St. Leger, against the Irish Catholic population in general.
Locations
People
Groups
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Scotland, Kingdom of
- Anglicans (Episcopal Church of England)
- Ireland, (English) Kingdom of
- Presbyterians
- England, (Stuart) Kingdom of
- Confederate Ireland (Irish Catholic Confederation [Confederation of Kilkenny])
Topics
- Three Kingdoms, Wars of the
- Irish Rebellion, Great
- Irish Confederate Wars
- English Civil War, First, or Great
