1610 in Ireland
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See also: | Other events of 1610 List of years in Ireland |
Events from the year 1610 in Ireland.
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 .
- Barnabe Rich publishes A New Description of Ireland.
Births
- Franciscan theologian (d. 1696)
- Jesuit (d. 1649)
- Guildford Slingsby, politician (d. 1643)
Deaths
- Approximate date – Patrick Walsh, merchant, ambassador and friar (b. before 1580)
References
- ISBN 9781846828553.
- ISBN 978-0-904387-82-7