A statute refers to the 'Inglishe Pale' - the first known use of the term. Perkin Warbeck joins a rebellion in Ireland led by Maurice, earl of Desmond. After Ulick Burke of Clanricard seizes Galway city, Garret More Fitzgerald goes to Connacht and defeats Burke at Knockdoe. Fitzgerald as a reward is made Knight of the Garter. 1516-1517 Reports state that the hierarchical Christian church in Ireland at this time is very weak.
Churches are in disrepair and priests are few.
Conn O' Neill becomes chief of the O'Neills. William Rokeby, Archbishop of Dublin, calls a provincial synod which passes a series of ordinances, including the enforcement of payment of the tithes, the discontinuance of the use of tin chalices and the forbidding of the playing of football by the clergy. 1520 Henry VIII sends the earl of Surrey to Ireland as lord lieutenant with 500 men to investigate the state of the country. But Henry and Cardinal Wolsey feel that this would be too costly, preferring concessions to co-opt the Gaelic lords into the English system. 1532 Manus O'Donnell, lord of Tirconnell, commissions and probably edits Betha Colaim Chille , a life of Colum Cille.