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Events from the year1562 in Ireland.

• Monarch:Elizabeth I

• January 6 –Shane O'Neill pleads his cause at thePalace of Whitehall inLondon beforeElizabeth I of England,^[1] who recognises him as "The O'Neill" and "ofTír Eoghain". He returns to Ireland on 26 May.^[1]
• April 12 – Brian O'Neill is murdered by his kinsmanTurlough Luineach O'Neill^[1] and is succeeded (in the eyes of the English administration of Ireland) as chief of theO'Neills by his brotherHugh.
• November –Séan Ó Néill lays waste toMaguire's Country (County Fermanagh).^[1]
• The stone bridge and west gate atGalway is completed byThomas Óge Martyn (mayor for second term 1562–63).

• Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare, nobleman and soldier (d.1597)
• Murrough O'Brien, 4th Baron Inchiquin, nobleman (d.1597)
• John Rider, Latin lexicographer andAnglicanBishop of Killaloe from 1612 to 1632 (d.1632)
• Approximate date
  • Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret, nobleman (d.1602)
  • Muircheartach Óg Ó Cíonga, writer and priest (d. c.1639)

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