1562 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events

• January 6 – [Shane O'Neill dynasty|O'Neill (Irish chieftain)|Shane O'Neill] pleads his cause at the Palace of Whitehall in London before Elizabeth I of England, who recognises him as "The O'Neill" and "of Tír Eoghain". He returns to Ireland on 26 May.
• April 12 – Brian O'Neill is murdered by his kinsman Turlough Luineach O'Neill and is succeeded as chief of the O'Neills by his brother Hugh.
• November – Séan Ó Néill lays waste to Maguire's Country.
• The stone bridge and west gate at Galway is completed by Thomas Óge Martyn.

Births

• Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare, nobleman and soldier
• Murrough O'Brien, 4th Baron Inchiquin, nobleman
• John Rider, Latin lexicographer and Anglican Bishop of Killaloe from 1612 to 1632
• Approximate date
• *Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret, nobleman
• *Muircheartach Óg Ó Cíonga, writer and priest