title: 1554 in Ireland
text: # 1554 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1554 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: Mary I
  
  ## Events
  
  * April 14 – George Dowdall, Archbishop of Armagh, is commissioned to deprive married clergy of their offices.
  * May 13 – the Earldom of Kildare is revived in favour of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl.
  * June 29 – Edward Staples, Bishop of Meath, is deprived of his office as being a married priest. The Cistercian William Walsh is appointed to succeed him on 22 November by letters patent.
  * Gerald FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare and Richard Nugent, Baron Delvin, campaign against Phelim Roc O'Neill of Clandeboye.
  * John Bathe is appointed Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas following the death of Sir Thomas Luttrell.
  * Barnaby Skurloke or Skurlog is appointed Attorney-General for Ireland, the first use of the title in place of King's Attorney.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Approximate date – Richard Field, Jesuit (d. 1606)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Cahir mac Art Kavanagh, Lord of St. Molyns, baron of Ballyann.
  * Sir Thomas Luttrell, lawyer (b. c.1490)
  