Events from the year 1546 in Ireland.
Incumbent
- Monarch: Henry VIII
Events
- February 7 – John Bathe becomes Principal Solicitor for Ireland.
- May 30 – Cornelius O'Dea is nominated by Henry VIII as first Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe (consecrated 12 July).
- October 28 – Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond succeeds the earldom following the death of his father James.
- Sir John Alan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, is removed from office by the Privy Council of England on a complaint of corruption, and Sir Richard Reade is sent to Dublin to replace him.
Births
- Possible date – Thomas Field, Jesuit explorer (d. 1625)
Deaths
- October 28 – James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormonde (b. c.1515)
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