1606 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1606 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- Plantation of Ulster: substantial lowland Scots settlement on disinhabited land in north Down, led by Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton.[1][2][3]
- County Wicklow becomes the last of the traditional counties of Ireland to be shired, from land previously part of counties Dublin and Carlow.
- Donal of the Pipes, 13th Prince of Carbery, chooses to surrender and regrant his barony to the Crown of England.[4]
- Anglican churchman William Bedell translates the Book of Common Prayer into Irish.
Births
- June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, soldier (d. 1675)
- October – Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell, soldier (d. 1642)
- approximate date – Claud Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Strabane, nobleman (d. 1638)
Deaths
- February 21 – Richard Field, superior of the Irish Jesuit mission (b. c.1554)
- Sir Edmund Pelham, judge (b. c.1533)
References
- ^ Stewart, A. T. Q. (1989). The Narrow Ground: The Roots of Conflict in Ulster (New ed.). London: Faber. p. 38.
- ^ Falls, Cyril (1996). The Birth of Ulster. London: Constable. pp. 156–157.
- ^ Perceval-Maxwell, M. (1999). The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation. p. 55.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1893). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34. London: Smith, Elder & Co.