Massacre

Sack of Cashel

Sep 1647 · 52.52° N, 7.89° W

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When
Sep 1647
Kind
Massacre
Coordinates
52.52° N, 7.89° W

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Sack of Cashel.

Summary

Sack of Cashel: Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, slaughters the Confederate Ireland garrison at Cashel. The priest Theobald Stapleton suffers summary execution. Inchiquin goes on to devastate Catholic-held Munster.

Sack of Cashel

English Parliamentarian sack and slaughter of the Confederate Ireland-held city of Cashel

The sack of Cashel, also known as the massacre of Cashel, took place on 15 September 1647 during the Irish Confederate Wars, when Cashel Castle in County Tipperary was taken by a Protestant Parliamentarian army commanded by the Baron of Inchiquin.

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