1584 in Ireland

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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.

Deaths

• 20 June – Dermot 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)
• Sir Henry Colley, or Cowley, an Irish soldier and landowner. ^[1]

References

1. Burke, Sir Bernard (1924). Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (Eighty Second ed.). London: Burke Publishing Company. p. 2312. Retrieved 25 November 2024.