1685 in Ireland

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Events

6 February - James II becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland upon the death of Charles II.^[1]
1 October - Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards is raised as a cavalry regiment of the British Army, the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers, by the regimenting of various independent troops, and ranked as the 6th Regiment of Horse.

August? - The News-letter first published in Dublin.
Rev. William Bedell's Old Testament translation into Irish, transcribed by Uilliam Ó Duinnín and revised by Rev. Narcissus Marsh with the aid of Jesuit scholars Andrew Sall and Paul Higgins and scientist Robert Boyle, is published posthumously in London in a new typeface designed by Sall and made by Joseph Moxon.^[2]^[3]
Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh semi-mythical history of Ireland, Ogygia: seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia & etc., is published.
Sir William Petty's Hiberniae Delineatio, the first printed atlas of Ireland (based on his Down Survey of 1655–6) is published.

11 March - William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow, politician (d.1746).
12 March - Bishop George Berkeley, philosopher and writer (d.1753).
Samuel Haliday, Presbyterian minister (d.1739).
Henry Ponsonby, soldier and politician (d.1745).
approximate date
- Henry Colley, politician (d.1723/4).
- Alexander Cosby, soldier in Nova Scotia (d.1742).
- Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Graf von Taaffe, soldier (d.1769).