1676 in Ireland

← 1675 1674 1673 1672 1671 1676 in Ireland → 1677 1678 1679 1680 1681
Centuries:	15th 16th 17th 18th 19th
Decades:	1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s
See also:	Other events of 1676 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1676 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles II

• July 31 – the title Viscount Lanesborough is first created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of George Lane, 2nd Baronet, of Tulsk.
• August 28 – Irish Donation of 1676 is shipped from Dublin to relieve Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome.^[1]

• William Handcock, politician (d. 1723)
• John Rogerson, lawyer and politician (d. 1741)
• Owen Swiny, theatrical impresario and art dealer (d. 1754)
• Caleb Threlkeld, botanist (d. 1728)
• approximate date – John Moore, 1st Baron Moore, politician (d. 1725)

Deaths

• John-Baptist Hackett, Dominican theologian.
• Jesuit theologian (b. 1611
  )