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1607 in Ireland
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1607
Events from the year 1607 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Monarch: James I
Events
September 14 – Flight of the Earls: Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell flee to Spain to avoid capture by the English crown.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/241 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 241
Plantation of Ulster, following the Flight of the Earls.
The Kingdom of East Breifne is disestablished and settled by English and Scottish colonists.
Sir Randall MacDonnell settles 300 Presbyterian Scots families on his land in Antrim.Marianne Elliott Marianne Elliott (historian) The Catholics of Ulster: A History https://archive.org/details/catholicsofulste00elli registration New York Basic Books 2001 88
Enniskillen Castle is taken by the English.
Lifford comes into the possession of Sir Richard Hansard.
Construction of James's Fort, protecting Kinsale harbour, is completed to the design of Paul Ive.Stephenson Charles 'Servant to The King for His Fortifications': Paul Ive and The Practise of Fortification 2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=h6iRHcUqrUMC&q=kinsale
Construction of Prince Rupert's Tower, protecting Cork Harbour, is completed about this date.
Births
March 20 – Lady Alice Boyle, later Alice Barry, Countess of Barrymore (d. 1667) 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 I 443 978-0-904387-82-7
Geoffrey Baron, scholar, lawyer and rebel (d. 1651)
Approximate date – Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Donalong (d. 1679)
Deaths
Richard Netterville, lawyer and politician (b. c. 1540)
Nicholas St Lawrence, 9th Baron Howth (b. c. 1550)
References
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