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1260 in Ireland

list of events in the year 1260

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4548466 ↗
Source-derived summary

Events from the year 1260 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Lord: Henry III

Events

Battle of Down; defeat and death of Brian O’Neill.

Grey Abbey in County Kildare was founded by William de Vesci. It was run by Franciscan friars.

Births

Roger Utlagh, or Roger Outlawe (d. 1341) was a leading Irish cleric, judge and statesman of the fourteenth century who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Deaths

Tadhg Mac Conchubair mic Donncaidh I Briain. His death recorded in Mac Carthaigh's Book as "a fortunate event for the Galls".

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1260 in Ireland” is list of events in the year 1260. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ireland, list and events, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1260, 1341—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ireland, list and events is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “list of events in the year 1260” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4548466. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1260 and 1341.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “1260 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.