1549 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1549 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Edward VI

• January – William St Loe is knighted in Dublin for services in Ireland.
• 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
  .

• Probable date –
  Jesuit explorer (d. 1625
  )

• 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)

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