1606 in Ireland

Events from the year 1606 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: James I

Events

• Plantation of Ulster: substantial lowland Scots settlement on disinhibited land in north Down, led by Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton.
• County Wicklow becomes the last of the traditional counties of Ireland to be shired, from land previously part of counties Dublin and Carlow.
• Donal of the Pipes, 13th Prince of Carbery, chooses to surrender and regrant his barony to the Crown of England.
• Anglican churchman William Bedell translates the Book of Common Prayer into Irish.

Births

• June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, soldier (d. 1675)
• October – Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell, soldier (d. 1642)
• approximate date – Claud Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Strabane, nobleman (d. 1638)

Deaths

• February 21 – Richard Field, superior of the Irish Jesuit mission (b. c.1554)
• Sir Edmund Pelham, judge (b. c.1533)

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