1697 in Ireland

Events from the year 1697 in Ireland.

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Centuries:
  • 15th
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
Decades:
  • 1670s
  • 1680s
  • 1690s
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
See also:Other events of 1697
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent
  • Monarch: William III

Events
  • October 27 – a thunderstorm ignites the arsenal at Athlone Castle.[1]
  • Banishment Act banishes all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church from Ireland.
  • Celbridge Abbey in County Kildare is built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
  • Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.

Births
  • March 8? – Anne Bonny, pirate (d. after 1721 in Jamaica)
  • September 16 – St George Caulfeild, lawyer and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1778)
  • December 27 – Sollom Emlyn, legal writer (d. 1754)
  • James Duchal, Presbyterian (d. 1761)
  • William Ruxton, landowner and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1751)
  • approx. date – John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam (Church of Ireland) (d. 1775)

Deaths
  • December 20 – Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, soldier and politician (b. c.1640)
  • Francis Burke, Franciscan
  • William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron Kerry, peer (b. 1633)

References
  1. Simons, Paul (2008). Since Records Began. London: Collins. pp. 55–6. ISBN 978-0-00-728463-4.
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