1549 in Ireland

Events from the year 1549 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: Edward VI

Events

 * January – 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).
 * 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.

Births

 * Probable date – Thomas Field, Jesuit explorer (d. 1625)

Deaths

 * 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)