1678 in Ireland

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See also:	Other events of 1678 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1678 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles II

• James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for supposed complicity in the "Popish Plot" and imprisoned in Dublin Castle.^[1]
• The vacant Bishopric of Leighlin is given to the Bishop of Kildare to form the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.
• About 1,200 Irish families sail from Barbados to Virginia and the Carolinas.

Births

• 26 September – Peter Lacy, soldier, imperial commander in Russia (d.1751
  )
• 1677 or 1678 – George Farquhar, dramatist (d.1707)

Deaths

• 23 August – Nicholas French, Bishop of Ferns, political activist and pamphleteer (b.1604
  )