1584 in Ireland

• Monarch: Elizabeth I ==Events==

• July – English government commissions a survey of Munster, following the Desmond Rebellions. Sir Valentine Browne is appointed to the task. It becomes known as the Peyton Survey after Sir Christopher Peyton • The Spanish Arch is built in Galway. • Perrott subdivides Cavan into seven baronies. • Richard Stanihurst's history De rebus in Hibernia gestis is published by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp. ==Deaths==

• 20 June – Dermot O'Hurley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel, put to death for treason. (b. c. 1530) • Margaret Ball, died of deprivation in the dungeons of Dublin Castle, beatified in 1992 (b. 1515) • Sir Henry Colley, or Cowley, an Irish soldier and landowner. ==References==