1549 in Ireland

Events from the year 1549 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
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  • 18th
Decades:
  • 1520s
  • 1530s
  • 1540s
  • 1550s
  • 1560s
See also:Other events of 1549
List of years 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
  • 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
  1. Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., eds. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
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