1245 in Ireland

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See also:	Other events of 1245 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1245 in Ireland.

Leadership

• Lord: Henry III^[1]

Events

• An earthquake destroys the Cathedral of Down which was established by John de Courcy with generous endowments to the Benedictines from Chester in England in 1183.^{[citation needed]}
• William Welwood becomes Lord Chancellor of Ireland.^[2]
• Maurice Fitzgerald, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, is generally credited with the establishment of the medieval European-style town and port of Sligo, building Sligo Castle in 1245.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. Carpenter, David A. (1990). The minority of Henry III. Berkeley, Calif.: Univ. of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07239-8.
2. O'Flanagan, James Roderick (1870). The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria. Vol. 1. Longmans, Green, and Company. p. 19.