1571 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

  Events

• February – John Perrot is made Lord President of Munster.
• February 3 – Miler Magrath is appointed Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel while simultaneously retaining the title of Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor. He will retain his new post until his death in 1622.
• November – Sir Thomas Smith is granted a patent and indenture from Queen Elizabeth I to establish an English colony on 360,000 acres of land in north Down in the territory of the Clandeboye O’Neills.
• First printing in the Irish language in Dublin, Aibidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma, a primer printed by John Kearney.
• Glenquin Castle was confiscated by the Crown from the Geraldines.

  Births

• Henry I De Coursey

  Deaths

• Gillaspick MacDonnell, a son of Colla MacDonnell. Killed by a bull in a bullfight.