1697 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1697 in Ireland.
Events
- October 27 - A thunderstorm ignites the arsenal at Athlone Castle.[1]
- Banishment Act banishes all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church from Ireland.
- Celbridge Abbey in County Kildare is built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
- Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
Births
- September 16 - St George Caulfeild, lawyer and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1778)
- December 27 - Sollom Emlyn, legal writer (d. 1754)
- James Duchal, Presbyterian (d. 1761)
- William Ruxton, landowner and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1751)
- Abraham Shackleton, Quaker (d. 1771)
- approx. date - John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam (Church of Ireland) (d. 1775)
Deaths
- December 20 - Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, soldier and politician (b. c.1640)
- Francis Burke, Franciscan
- William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron Kerry, peer (b. 1633)