Events

• Christmas
  Christmas
  Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
  
   to March - The Black Death
  Black Death
  The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. Of several competing theories, the dominant explanation for the Black Death is the plague theory, which attributes the outbreak to the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Thought to have...
  
  : "The pestilence gathered strength in Kilkenny
  Kilkenny
  Kilkenny is a city and is the county town of the eponymous County Kilkenny in Ireland. It is situated on both banks of the River Nore in the province of Leinster, in the south-east of Ireland...
  
   during Lent
  Lent
  In the Christian tradition, Lent is the period of the liturgical year from Ash Wednesday to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer – through prayer, repentance, almsgiving and self-denial – for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and...
  
   ... there was scarcely a house in which only one died."
• 3 February - Conall Ó Mórdha killed by his brothers. Succeeded as King of Laois by his son, Ruaidhrí.
• May - The Black Plague ends after causing several thousand deaths.
• 17 June - Fulk de la Freigne killed by the Irish of Leinster
  Leinster
  Leinster is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the east of Ireland. It comprises the ancient Kingdoms of Mide, Osraige and Leinster. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the historic fifths of Leinster and Mide gradually merged, mainly due to the impact of the Pale, which straddled...
  
  
• 18 June - The Statute of labourers is passed at Westminster
  Westminster
  Westminster is an area of central London, within the City of Westminster, England. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross...
  
   and will later be applied in Ireland.
• 17 July - Thomas de Rokeby appointed Justicier of Ireland; arrives 20 December. John de Carew acts as deputy Justicier.
• November - Maurice, Earl of Desmond
  Earl of Desmond
  The title of Earl of Desmond has been held historically by lords in Ireland, first as a title outside of the peerage system and later as part of the Peerage of Ireland....
  
  , pardoned.
• Shortage of corn and spices, leading to prices of twenty pence for a pound of corn and forty pence for pepper and ginger.
• Aedh Ó Ruairc defeats Flaithbertaigh Ó Ruairc and his allies, Donough Ó Domhnaill; Aedh Mag Fhlannchaidh, Chief of Dartry; Gilchreest Mag Fhlannchaidh; Loughlin mac Aindiles Ó Baoighill.
• Flaithbheartach Domnall Carrach Ó Ruairc deposed from kingship of West Bréifne.
• Sean Dubh MacDonnell was killed by Manus mac Eochaid Mac Mathghamhna
• Warfare between Ruaidri mac Tairdelbach Ó Conchobair and Ferghal MacDermot
  MacDermot
  Mac Diarmata is an Irish surname, and the surname of the ruling dynasty of Moylurg, a kingdom that existed in Connacht from the 10th to 16th centuries.-Overview:...
  
  ; the former burns, wastes and plunders Moylurg
  Moylurg
  Magh Luirg or Magh Luirg an Dagda, Anglicised as Moylurg, was the name of a kingdom located in the north-east of Connacht, the western province of Ireland, from c.956-1585...
  
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• Donough Reagh mac Melaghlin Carragh MacDermot seized by Cormac Bodhar Mac Dermot, who has him killed by the son of Gilchreest Mac Taichligh and The Ó Cearnaigh.
• Gilbert Ó Flannagáin,, Chief of Tuath Ratha, was slain by the sons of Brian Ó Flannagáin.
• Murtough Riaganagh Mag Aenghusa killed by his brothers.
• Cormac Ballach mac Art Ó Maoilsheachlainn and the Irish of Mide defeated by the Lord Justice and the English of Meath, "in which many of their chieftains were slain."
• A raid by The Clanricarde into Lower Connacht is met and heavily defeated by Mac William Burk and Mac Feorais, resulting in his capture and the capture and death of many of his followers.

Births

• Friar John, Minister of the Friar Preachers of Ireland (alive 1405).

Deaths

• After June - Friar John Clyn
  John Clyn
  John Clyn of the Friars Minor, Kilkenny, was a 14th century Irish monk and chronicler who lived at the time of the Black Death.-Background:...
  
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• 14 July - Alexander de Bicknor
  Alexander de Bicknor
  Alexander de Bicknor was an official in the Plantagenet kingdom under Edward I of England, Edward II of England, and Edward III of England...
  
  , Archbishop of Dublin
  Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic)
  The Archbishop of Dublin is the title of the senior cleric who presides over the Archdiocese of Dublin. The Church of Ireland has a similar role, heading the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough. In both cases, the Archbishop is also Primate of Ireland...
  
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• Matthew mac Cathal Ó Ruairc, "of the Black Death."
• Risdeard mac Giolla Iosa Ruaidh Ó Raghallaigh, Lord of East Breifne.
• Diarmaid mac Gilbert O Cellaigh,, King of Hy-Many
  Hy-Many
  Uí Maine, often incorrectly Anglicised as Hy Many, was one of the oldest and largest kingdoms located in Connacht, Ireland. Its territory of approximately encompassed all of what is now north, east and south County Galway, south and central County Roscommon, an area near County Clare, and at one...
  
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• Rory Ó Catháin, Lord of Creeve and Ard-Keanaghta.
• Aedh Ó Raghallaigh.
• Gilla Caech Mac Dorchaidhe.
• Maurice MacDonough, Chief of Corran.
• Gilla na Neamh Ó h-Uiginn, poet.
• A grandson of the Earl of Ulster.