Autumn/Winter – at least 20 ships of the retreating Spanish Armada get washed up on the Irish coast and hundreds of sailors die. MacSweeney Bannagh gives assistance to La Girona at Killybegs but on 26 October she is wrecked off County Antrim with only 9 survivors from an estimated 1300 onboard (including survivors from earlier wrecks). Brian O'Rourke assists at least eighty survivors – including Francisco de Cuellar – to depart the country.
