1492 in Ireland

Events from the year 1492 in Ireland.

Incumbent

March – pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck is brought from Cork to Harfleur by the fleet of Charles VIII of France.{{cite ODNB|first=S. J.|last=Gunn|title=Warbeck, Perkin|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28669|access-date=2012-03-08|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28669}}
The Butler – Fitzgerald dispute is resolved at the 'door of reconciliation' in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Archbishop Walter Fitzsimon is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland.
James Ormonde is appointed Lord Treasurer of Ireland.
Alexander Plunket is appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

October 25 – Thaddeus McCarthy, Bishop of Ross, then Bishop of Cork and Cloyne (b. c. 1455){{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=Timothy Willem|last2=Matthews-Jones|first2=Lucinda|title=Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things|date=2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781137540638|page=50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Il16CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|language=en}}
James Fleming, 7th Baron Slane, member of the Parliament of Ireland (from sweating sickness).Annals of Ulster, vol.iii, ed. B. MacCarthy, Dublin, 1895, pp. 358ff; Annals of Connacht, ed. A. M. Freeman, Dublin, 1944, pp. 594ff.
Aedh Mac Fhlannchaidh, brehon lawyer and Ollamh of Thomond.