1698 in Ireland

Events

Births

• 15 June - George Browne, soldier of fortune, became field-marshal in the Russian army (d.1792).
• Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (d.1748).

Deaths

• 15 January - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, cavalier and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (b.1612).
• January - Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, poet (b.1625).
• 11 October - William Molyneux, natural philosopher and writer, founded the Dublin Philosophical Society (b.1656).