1600 in Ireland

Events

• January – Nine Years' War against England is renewed by Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, with an invasion of Munster.
• January 27 – Colonel Richard Wingfield is made Marshal of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth.
• February 18 – Nine Years' War: Rebel cavalry in Munster led by Hugh Maguire are intercepted and their leaders killed.
• May 15 – Nine Years' War: Chief Niall Garbh Ó Domhnaill betrays the Irish alliance and allows Henry Docwra to land at Lough Foyle with an expeditionary force of 4,000 men. In a devastating blow to the rebels, Docwra sets up a series of fortifications along the River Foyle, cutting access between Tír Eoghain and Tyrconnell.
• September 20 - October 9: the Battle of Moyry Pass is fought. Lord Mountjoy's English forces eventually break through Hugh O'Neill's defences in County Armagh and establish a short-lived garrison at Mountnorris but later retreat.

  Births

• Aedh O'Rourke, son of Tadhg O'Rourke of West Breifne and Mary O'Donnell of Tyrconnell.
• Heber MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher
• Terence Albert O'Brien, Roman Catholic Bishop of Emly,
• John Temple, judge and politician
• Approximate date
• *John Colgan, hagiographer and historian
• *James Dillon, Confederate officer
• *Piaras Feiritéar, poet and harpist
• *Rory O'Moore, landowner, noble and rebel leader

  Deaths

• February 18 – Hugh Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh and prominent rebel leader, is killed in Munster.
• Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin, poet