1610 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1610 in Ireland.
Events
- Plantations of Ireland in the north of County Wexford, on lands confiscated from the MacMurrough-Kavanagh clan.
- 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
- October 19 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688)[1]
- Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (d. 1696)
- John Bathe, Jesuit (d. 1649)
- Guildford Slingsby, politician (d. 1643)
Deaths
- Approximate date - Patrick Walsh, merchant, ambassador and friar (b. before 1580)
References
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