1649 in Ireland

Events

• January 30
• * King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded in London.
• * Prince Charles Stuart declares himself King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. At the time all three Kingdoms had not recognised him as ruler.
• May 22-October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale.
• August 2 – Battle of Rathmines – a combined Irish Confederate and English Royalist force trying to besiege Dublin is routed by the English Parliamentarians with heavy casualties.
• August 15 – Oliver Cromwell lands in Dublin with the New Model Army to begin the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
• September 3 – Siege of Drogheda begins.
• September 11 – Sack of Drogheda: Cromwell takes the town and put its Irish Catholic Confederation garrison to death.
• October 2 – siege of Wexford begins.
• October 11 – Sack of Wexford: Cromwell's forces take and sack the town, killing many of its defenders and several hundred civilians.
• October 19 – New Ross falls to the English Parliamentarian forces.
• November – Battle of Arklow: An Irish force attacks Cromwell's army as it marches south but is beaten off.
• November 19 – Carrick-on-Suir taken by stealth by Cromwellian forces after they discover an undefended gate. An Irish counter-attack under Major Geoghegan on November 24 is repulsed with five hundred Irish Confederate soldiers killed.
• November 24 – Cromwell's army arrives before Waterford to besiege the city.
• December 6 – Battle of Lisnagarvey – a Scottish Covenanter force is routed by the English Parliamentarian New Model Army.
• December 10 – Cromwell calls off the siege of Waterford and retires to Youghal: due to bad weather and disease, only 3,000 of his 6,500 besieging force are still fit for duty.

  Births

Deaths

• September 11 – Arthur Aston, Royalist commander,
• November 6 – Owen Roe O'Neill Irish Catholic general,
• December – Michael Jones, English Parliamentarian general.