title: 1559 in Ireland
text: # 1559 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1559 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: Elizabeth I
  
  ## Events
  
  * September 3 – Robert Dillon is appointed Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.
  * Shane O'Neill is elected to succeed Conn O'Neill as The Ó Néill Mór.
  * Valentine Browne is appointed Surveyor General of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth.
  * William FitzWilliam is appointed Vice-Treasurer and acting Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
  * Approximate date – the Church of Ireland Bishopric of Mayo is united with the Archdiocese of Tuam.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Christopher Holywood, Jesuit (d. 1626)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * March – Robert Plunkett, 5th Baron of Dunsany
  * Gerald Aylmer, judge (b. c.1500)
  * Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone (b. c.1480)
  * Approximate date – John Bathe, lawyer.
  