Events from the year 1505 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Events

*June 21 –

Piers Butler Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (1539) also known as Red Piers (Irish ''Piers Ruadh''), was from the Polestown–– branch of the Butler family of Ireland. In the succession crisis at the death of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl ...

, future 8th Earl of Ormond appointed

seneschal The word ''seneschal'' () can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context. Most commonly, a seneschal was a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ...

of Tipperary Liberty * Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, leases Irish estates to Piers Butler, his eventual successor * Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare invested as Knight of the Garter by Henry VII

Births

* Thomas Cusack, (disputed)

Lord Chancellor of Ireland The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. From 1721 to 1801, it was also the highest political office of ...

Deaths

* July 11 - Hugh Roe O'Donnell, King of Tyrconnell

References

1500s in Ireland Ireland Years of the 16th century in Ireland {{Ireland-year-stub