1559 in Ireland
# 1559 in Ireland

Events from the year 1559 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.
