1576 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Elizabeth I

  Events

• 9 March – Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, is appointed Earl Marshal of Ireland.
• April – Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, shires Connacht into counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo.
• June – the rebel sons of Richard Burke, Earl of Clanricarde, attack Athenry. They are captured and imprisoned in Dublin but escape.
• 20 June – Sir William Drury is appointed President of Munster.
• September – the Earl of Essex returns to Dublin but dies within three weeks of dysentery.

  Births

• Approximate date – Anthony Lynch, Dominican

  Deaths

• 22 September – Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, Earl Marshal of Ireland