What the records say
- When
- 1577
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 400
- Coordinates
- 53.01° N, 6.85° W
- Description
- 1577 or 1578 mass killing of Irish Gaelic nobles
Massacre of Mullaghmast
1577 or 1578 mass killing of Irish Gaelic nobles
The massacre of Mullaghmast was the mass killing of between 100 and 400 members of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland by English forces under the command of Sir Henry Sidney in Mullaghmast, County Kildare in either late 1577 or 1 January 1578. There is limited surviving documentation on the massacre, although documents have recently been made available at the National Library of Ireland.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Massacre of Mullaghmast: The Ó Moores and O'Connors have most of their fine (or ruling families) massacred by English soldiers at Mullaghmast (County Kildare)…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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