1558 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1558 in Ireland.
Events
- November 17 - The Protestant Elizabeth I succeeds as Queen of England and Ireland upon the death of her Catholic half-sister Mary. The Elizabethan Religious Settlement follows.[1]
- Sorley Boy MacDonnell obtains lordship of the clan territory in Antrim from James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg.[2]
Deaths
- Autumn - Richard St Lawrence, 7th Baron Howth, nobleman and soldier (b. c.1510)
- October 27 - James FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond.
- November 17 - Mary I, Queen regnant of Ireland (b. 1516)
- Thomas Butler, 1st Baron Cahir.
References
- ↑ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., ed. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 370.
- ↑ Dictionary of National Biography 35. pp. 59–60.