title: 1647 in Ireland
text: # 1647 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1647 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: Charles I
  
  ## Events
  
  * July – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, surrenders Dublin to parliamentary forces under Michael Jones.
  * August – Battle of Dungan's Hill, Confederate Ireland army intercepted on a march towards Dublin and destroyed by Parliamentary army.
  * September – 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.
  * November – Battle of Knocknanuss, Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin's Parliamentarian army inflicts crushing defeat on Confederate Ireland's Munster army.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne, courtier and military commander (d. 1691)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 13 September – Theobald Stapleton, priest and writer, put to death in Sack of Cashel (b. 1589)
  * Garret Barry, soldier, served in the Eighty Years' War and the Irish Confederate Wars, military writer.
  * Col Ciotach, adventurer of Clan Donald, Laird of Colonsay (b. 1570)
  * Alasdair MacColla, Scottish/Irish soldier, son of Colla Ciotach, killed at the battle of Knocknanuss.
  