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1610 in Ireland
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1610
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.Belturbet, County Cavan, 1610-1714: the origins of an Ulster Plantation town Brendan Scott Dublin Four Courts Press 2020 9781846828553
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) G. E. Cokayne George Edward Cokayne Vicary Gibbs Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP) H. A. Doubleday Geoffrey H. White Duncan Warrand Thomas Scott-Ellis Howard de Walden Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden 2000 The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant new (reprint) Alan Sutton Publishing Stroud X 149 978-0-904387-82-7
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)
References
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