Events from the year 1160 in Ireland.

Incumbents High King: Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn

Events Jerpoint Abbey is founded in County Kilkenny. Earliest recorded reference to Dromcollogher - in the Book of Leinster.

Deaths 17 December – Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn, poet, historian and cleric (born 1102).

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