1549 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1549 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- January â 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 NÃ 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 â Thomas Field, Jesuit explorer (d. 1625)
Deaths
- July 31 â Thomas Eustace, 1st Viscount Baltinglass, landowner (b. c.1480)
- c. December 23 â Matthew Sanders, Bishop of Leighlin.
- Sir Edward Bellingham, former Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1506)