1610 in Ireland

• Monarch: James I

• 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.{{cite book|title=Belturbet, County Cavan, 1610-1714: the origins of an Ulster Plantation town|first=Brendan|last=Scott|location=Dublin|publisher=Four Courts Press|year=2020|isbn=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.

• 19 October – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688){{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

| publication-place = Stroud

| volume = X

| page = 149

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

}}

• Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (d. 1696)
• John Bathe, Jesuit (d. 1649)
• Guildford Slingsby, politician (d. 1643)

• Approximate date – Patrick Walsh, merchant, ambassador and friar (b. before 1580)

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