Events from the year 1646 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: Charles I Events 3 March – the title of Earl of Leinster in the Peerage of Ireland is created for Robert Cholmondeley. 28 March – the first "Ormonde Peace": the Supreme Council of the Irish Catholic Confederation signs an agreement with James Butler, Marquess of Ormonde, as lieutenant of Charles I of England which would procure some rights for Catholics in return for their military support of the royalists in England, but this is renounced by the Confederation's General Assembly. 5 June – the Battle of Benburb, part of the Irish Confederate Wars, takes place in County Tyrone. The forces of Catholic Confederate Ireland under Owen Roe O'Neill secure a decisive victory over a Scottish Covenanter and Anglo-Irish army led by Robert Monro. 29 June – battle at Laught (Leacht), part of the Irish Confederate Wars, between Tadhg Mór and his brother Laughlin Ó Cellaigh (who is killed).
Arts and literature Henry Burkhead's closet drama Cola's Fury, or Lirenda's Misery, based on the Irish Rebellion of 1641, is published in Kilkenny (dated 1645).
Births 24 August – Roger Boyle, 2nd Earl of Orrery, politician (d. 1682) John Davys, politician (d. 1689) Antoine Hamilton, author (d. 1720)
Deaths 29 June – Laughlin Ó Cellaigh, chief.
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