1632 in Ireland

Events from the year 1632 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles I

Events

• September 8 – Government order for the destruction of St Patrick's Purgatory in Lough Derg, County Donegal, carried out on 25 October.
• Compilation of the Annals of the Four Masters begins at Donegal.
• Peter Lombard's De Regno Hiberniae sanctorum insula commentarius is published at Louvain.

Deaths

• November 30 – Émonn Ó Braonain, subject of a verse lament.
• Domhnall Spainneach Mac Murrough Caomhanach; the last king of Leinster.
• John Rider, Latin lexicographer and Anglican Bishop of Killaloe from 1612 to 1632 (b. 1562)
• Richard Tyrrell
• Approximate date – Somhairle Mac Domhnail, soldier.

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