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.