1527 in Ireland

Events from the year 1527 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Lord: Henry VIII

Events

• Edmond de Burca is succeeded as Mac William Iochtar by Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke.
• Edmund Butler, archbishop of Cashel, is consecrated.
• James Butler, 9th earl of Ormond, becomes Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII.
• John Rawson, 1st and only Viscount Clontarf, is appointed commander of the light infantry of Order of St. John of Jerusalem.
• Rychard Martin is succeeded as Mayor of Galway by William Morris.

Births

• March 21 – Edward Fitton, the elder, Lord President of Connaught and Thomond and the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland (died 1579).
• May 21 – Philip II of Spain, King of England and Ireland (died 1598).
• October 2 – William Drury, Lord President of Munster and Lord Justice of Ireland, is born in Hawstead, Suffolk (died 1579).
• Elizabeth FitzGerald, Countess of Lincoln, Irish noblewoman (died 1590).
• John Garvey, Protestant Bishop of Kilmore and Archbishop of Armagh (died 1595).
• John Hooker, Member of parliament for Athenry (died 1601).
• William Good, English Jesuit teacher in Limerick (died 1586).

Deaths

• September 30 – Donnchadh mac Eoghan Ó Duinnshléibhe, Irish physician.
• John Rycardes, Master of the Rolls in Ireland and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral.

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