1344 in Ireland

Events

• February 10 – Ralph d'Ufford is appointed Justiciar.
• April 20 – custody of the lands of the late Earl of Ormond is granted to the Earl of Desmond.
• April 24 – the 'Bonnaght', a treaty between Richard, Duke of York, Earl of Ulster and Henry, Son of Eoghan O'Neill, is sanctioned in Ulster.
• June 3 – Justiciar is ordered to resume and regrant all abandoned and waste lands.
• July 21 – Justiciar campaigns in south Leinster and Munster.
• October 21 – Pope Clement VI issues dispensation for marriage between Maurice fitz Thomas FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare, and Joan, daughter of the Earl of Desmond.
• James Bermingham became Bishop of Killala
• John Morice appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland

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