1584 in Ireland

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1584
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Ireland

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Centuries:
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Decades:
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See also:Other events of 1584
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1584 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events[]

  • July – English government commissions a survey of Munster, following the Desmond Rebellions. Sir Valentine Browne is appointed to the task. It becomes known as the Peyton Survey after Sir Christopher Peyton
  • The Spanish Arch is built in Galway.
  • Perrott subdivides Cavan into seven baronies.
  • Richard Stanihurst's history De rebus in Hibernia gestis is published by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp.

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • June 20Dermot O'Hurley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, put to death for treason. (b. c. 1530)
  • Margaret Ball, died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle, beatified in 1992 (b. 1515)

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