Henry Heron was an Irish soldier of the Tudor era.
He was the son of Sir Nicholas Heron, an Englishman who had settled in Ireland and become a leading political and military figure.
[1] Henry was a landowner in County Carlow, where he became drawn into a violent dispute with the neighboring Kavanaghs.
In 1586 along with his brother-in-law Dudley, he took part in an operation that captured and killed a leading Kavanagh.
By 1588 Heron had to petition the Crown for financial relief due to the attacks on his estates.