1610 in Ireland

Events from the year 1610 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: James I

Events

• Plantations of Ireland in the north of County Wexford, on lands confiscated from the MacMurrough-Kavanagh clan; and in County Cavan by William Bailie, who begins construction of Bailieborough Castle, and Stephen Butler, who begins establishment of an urban centre at Belturbet.
• 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

• 19 October – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
• 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)

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