1559 in Ireland

Events from the year 1559 in Ireland.

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See also:	Other events of 1559 List of years in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events

• September 3 – Robert Dillon is appointed Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.
• Shane O'Neill is elected to succeed Conn O'Neill as The Ó Néill Mór.
• Valentine Browne is appointed Surveyor General of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth.
• William FitzWilliam is appointed Vice-Treasurer and acting Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
• Approximate date – the Church of Ireland Bishopric of Mayo is united with the Archdiocese of Tuam.

Births

• Christopher Holywood, Jesuit (d. 1626)

Deaths

• March – Robert Plunkett, 5th Baron of Dunsany
• Gerald Aylmer, judge (b. c.1500)
• Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (b. c.1480)
• Approximate date – John Bathe, lawyer.