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Events from the year 1608 in Ireland. ==Events== *April - Launch of O'Doherty's Rebellion. Following the Flight of the Earls and angered by land confiscations for the plantation of Ulster, Sir Cahir O'Doherty, Lord of Inishowen, sacks and burns Derry and Cahir's foster-father Felim Riabhach McDavitt kills the Governor, Sir George Paulet. *July 5 - Cahir O'Doherty is shot dead at the Battle of Kilmacrennan, a skirmish with an English force under Sir Richard Wingfield.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=''The Irish Times'' )〕 His severed head is displayed in Dublin for some time afterwards.〔 〕 The surviving rebels retreat to be besieged on Tory Island *County Longford is transferred from Connacht to Leinster, has its boundaries defined and is divided into six baronies. *At about this date, Randal MacDonnell establishes a model town around Dunluce Castle.〔''The News Letter'' (Belfast) 2011-06-18 p. 3.〕 *Original license to distil whiskey granted to the Old Bushmills Distillery by King James I. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1608 in Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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