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1515 in Ireland

list of events

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ4550232 ↗
Source-derived summary

Events from the year 1515 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Lord: Henry VIII

Births

Margaret Ball, died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle, beatified in 1992 (d. 1584)

Deaths

August 3 – Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde (b. c.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1515 in Ireland” as list of events. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ireland, list and events.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1515, 1992, 1584—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ireland, list and events providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1515 in Ireland”, the useful work is to connect “list of events” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4550232. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1515, 1992 and 1584.

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This entry incorporates text from “1515 in Ireland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.