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1680 in Ireland
Events from the year
1680 in Ireland
.
Incumbent
Monarch
:
Charles II
Events
29 April
â construction of the
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
in
Dublin
as a home for retired soldiers begins to the design of Sir
William Robinson
.
23 July
–
24 July
â trial of
Oliver Plunkett
,
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Armagh
and
Primate of All Ireland
, at
Dundalk
for conspiracy in the supposed "
Popish Plot
" ends without
indictment
and on 24 October he is transferred to London.
English
antiquarian
Thomas Dingley
tours Ireland.
Edmund Borlase
's
The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion
is published.
Arts and literature
The poem-book
Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe
is transcribed by RuairÃÂ ÃÂ hUiginn of Sligo at the command of Cormac ÃÂ Neill.
Births
4 October
âÂÂ
Giles Alington, 4th Baron Alington
(d.
1691
)
;Full date unknown
:*
Richard Cantillon
, economic theorist (d.
1734
)
:*
Bernard MacMahon
,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher
, later Archbishop of Armagh (d.
1747
)
:*Approximate date âÂÂ
Cathal BuÃÂ Mac Giolla Ghunna
, poet (d.
1756
)
Deaths
30 July
âÂÂ
Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory
, soldier and politician (b.
1634
)
23 August
âÂÂ
Thomas Blood
, soldier, tried to steal the
Crown Jewels of England
from the
Tower of London
in 1671 (b.
1618
)
September or October âÂÂ
William Steele
,
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
(b.
1610
)
c.
15 November
âÂÂ
Peter Talbot
, imprisoned
Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin
and
Primate of Ireland
(b.
1620
?)
References