1607 in Ireland

Events from the year 1607 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
  • 15th
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  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1580s
  • 1590s
  • 1600s
  • 1610s
  • 1620s
See also:Other events of 1607
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: James I

Events
  • September 14 – Flight of the Earls: Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell flee to Spain to avoid capture by the English crown.[1]
  • Plantation of Ulster, following the Flight of the Earls.
    • The Kingdom of East Breifne is disestablished and settled by English and Scottish colonists.
    • Sir Randall MacDonnell settles 300 Presbyterian Scots families on his land in Antrim.[2]
    • Enniskillen Castle is taken by the English.
    • Lifford comes into the possession of Sir Richard Hansard.
  • Construction of James's Fort, protecting Kinsale harbour, is completed to the design of Paul Ive.[3]
  • Construction of Prince Rupert's Tower, protecting Cork Harbour, is completed about this date.

Births
  • March 20 – Lady Alice Boyle, later Alice Barry, Countess of Barrymore (d. 1667)[4]
  • Geoffrey Baron, scholar, lawyer and rebel (d. 1651)
  • Approximate date – Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Donalong (d. 1679)

Deaths
  • Richard Netterville, lawyer and politician (b. c. 1540)
  • Nicholas St Lawrence, 9th Baron Howth (b. c. 1550)

References
  1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 241. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  2. Elliott, Marianne (2001). The Catholics of Ulster: A History. New York: Basic Books. p. 88.
  3. Stephenson, Charles (2008). 'Servant to The King for His Fortifications': Paul Ive and The Practise of Fortification.
  4. Cokayne, G. E.; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. A.; White, Geoffrey H.; Warrand, Duncan; Howard de Walden, Thomas Scott-Ellis, eds. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. I (new (reprint) ed.), Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 443, ISBN 978-0-904387-82-7
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