1607 in Ireland
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{{YearInIrelandNav | 1607 }}
Events from the year 1607 in Ireland.
Incumbent
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.{{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
- March 20 – Lady Alice Boyle, later Alice Barry, Countess of Barrymore (d. 1667){{Citation
| 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
}}
- 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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{{Year in Europe|1607}}