1697 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1697 in Ireland.
Incumbent[edit]
Events[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ Simons, Paul (2008). Since Records Began. London: Collins. pp. 55–6. ISBN 978-0-00-728463-4.