1606 in Ireland
Events from the year 1606 in Ireland.
Incumbent
- Monarch: James I
Events
- Plantation of Ulster: substantial lowland Scots settlement on disinhibited land in north Down, led by Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton.
- 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.
- Anglican churchman William Bedell translates the Book of Common Prayer into Irish.
Births
- June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, soldier
- October – Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell, soldier
- approximate date – Claud Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Strabane, nobleman
Deaths
- February 21 – Richard Field, superior of the Irish Jesuit mission
- Sir Edmund Pelham, judge