1542 in Ireland

Events from the year 1542 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Lord/Monarch: Henry VIII

Events

• 15 February – 7/10 March: the Parliament of Ireland meets in Limerick and re-enacts the Crown of Ireland Act, declaring King Henry VIII of England and his heirs to be Kings of Ireland, for the benefit of Munster and Connacht.
• February–March – first Jesuit mission to Ireland.
• June 18 – Crown of Ireland Act 1542 is enacted, ending the Lordship of Ireland and creating the Kingdom of Ireland.
• August 8 – St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher, is created from the former abbey church.
• September 7 – Bernard O'Higgins is consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.
• Dissolution of the Monasteries – establishments dissolved include:
• Armagh Friary.
• Ballintubber Abbey.
• Claregalway Friary.
• Fermoy Monastery.
• Kells Abbey, Co. Antrim (1 February).
• Kilcrea Friary (friars remaining in occupancy under protection of the MacCarthy family).
• Knockmoy Abbey (24 May).
• Movilla Abbey.
• Rattoo Abbey, Ballyduff, County Kerry.
• Timoleague Friary.
• Woodburn Abbey, Co. Antrim (1 March).
• Youghal Nunnery.
• November 25 - Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act shires these two counties.

Births

• Edmund O'Donnell, Jesuit martyr (k. 1575)

Deaths

• August 9 – Margaret FitzGerald, Countess of Ormond, noblewoman.
• Christopher St Lawrence, 5th Baron Howth, nobleman (b. c.1485)

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