1549 in Ireland

List of events

  • 1548
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  • 1546
  • 1545
  • 1544
1549
in
Ireland

  • 1550
  • 1551
  • 1552
  • 1553
  • 1554
Centuries:
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Decades:
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See also:Other events of 1549
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1549 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Monarch: Edward VI

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

References

  1. ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
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