1546 in Ireland

Events from the year 1546 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Henry VIII

Events

• February 7 – John Bathe becomes Principal Solicitor for Ireland.
• May 30 – Cornelius O'Dea is nominated by Henry VIII as first Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (consecrated 12 July).
• October 28 – Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond succeeds the earldom following the death of his father James.
• Sir John Alan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, is removed from office by the Privy Council of England on a complaint of corruption, and Sir Richard Reade is sent to Dublin to replace him.

Births

• Possible date – Thomas Field, Jesuit explorer (d. 1625)

Deaths

• October 28 – James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormonde (b. c.1515)

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