1610 in Ireland
Events from the year 1610 in Ireland.
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Incumbent
- Monarch: James I
Events
- Plantations of Ireland in the north of County Wexford, on lands confiscated from the MacMurrough-Kavanagh clan; and in County Cavan by William Bailie, who begins construction of Bailieborough Castle, and Stephen Butler, who begins establishment of an urban centre at Belturbet.[1]
- Construction of Antrim Castle is begun.
- Poet and historian Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) is appointed by the Catholic Church to the cure of souls at Uachtar Achaidh in the parish of Knockgraffon, near Cahir, County Tipperary.
- Barnabe Rich publishes A New Description of Ireland.
Births
Deaths
- Approximate date – Patrick Walsh, merchant, ambassador and friar (b. before 1580)
References
- Scott, Brendan (2020). Belturbet, County Cavan, 1610-1714: the origins of an Ulster Plantation town. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 9781846828553.
- 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. X (new (reprint) ed.), Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 149, ISBN 978-0-904387-82-7
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