1607 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1607 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Events

  • September 14Flight 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.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/241|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/241 241]}}
  • 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.{{cite book|first=Marianne|last=Elliott|author-link = Marianne Elliott (historian)|title=The Catholics of Ulster: A History|url=https://archive.org/details/catholicsofulste00elli|url-access=registration|location=New York|publisher=Basic Books|year=2001|page=[https://archive.org/details/catholicsofulste00elli/page/88 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.{{cite book|last=Stephenson|first=Charles|title='Servant to The King for His Fortifications': Paul Ive and The Practise of Fortification|year=2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6iRHcUqrUMC&q=kinsale}}
  • Construction of Prince Rupert's Tower, protecting Cork Harbour, is completed about this date.

Births

| editor1-first = G. E.

| editor1-last = Cokayne

| editor-link1 = George Edward Cokayne

| editor2-first = Vicary

| editor2-last = Gibbs

| editor-link2 = Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP)

| editor3-first = H. A.

| editor3-last = Doubleday

| editor4-first = Geoffrey H.

| editor4-last = White

| editor5-first = Duncan

| editor5-last = Warrand

| editor6-first = Thomas Scott-Ellis

| editor6-last = Howard de Walden

| editor-link6 = Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden

| year = 2000

| title = The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant

| edition = new (reprint)

| publisher = Alan Sutton Publishing

| location = Stroud

| volume = I

| page = 443

| isbn = 978-0-904387-82-7

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Deaths

References

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Category:1600s in Ireland

Ireland

Category:Years of the 17th century in Ireland