1630 in Ireland

Events from the year 1630 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles I

Events

• Lismore Cathedral is destroyed.
• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's Félire na naomh nÉrennach ("Calendar of Irish Saints" or "Martyrology of Donegal") is completed.

Births

• Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, soldier (d. 1691)
• Nicholas Ward, politician (d. after 1666)
• Approximate date
• Alexander Fitton, lawyer and politician (d. 1698)
• John Keating, judge (d. 1691, committed suicide)
• Hugh Reily, lawyer and politician (d. 1695)

Deaths

• February 20 – James "Spanish" Blake, spy (b. after 1560)
• June 3 – Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry, soldier (b. 1574)
• Approximate date – Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh, poet and historian (b. before 1603)

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