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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
âÂÂ
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 âÂÂ
Patrick Walsh
, merchant, ambassador and friar (b. before
1580
)
References