1549 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1549 in Ireland.
Events
- January - William St Loe is knighted in Dublin for services in Ireland.
- Plantation of Leix and Offaly starts (continues until they are established as Queen's and King's Counties in 1557).[1]
- Fionnuala Ní Flaithbheartaigh conspires with her brother, Domhnall mac Ruairi Oge O Flaithbheartaigh, to murder her late husband's son Walter Fada Burke and seize his castle and lands of Inverin.
Births
- Probable date – Thomas Field, Jesuit explorer (d. 1625)
Deaths
- July 31 – Thomas Eustace, 1st Viscount Baltinglass, landowner (b. c.1480)
- c. December 23 – Matthew Sanders, Bishop of Leighlin.
- Sir Edward Bellingham, former Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1506)
References
- ↑ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
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