1654 in Ireland
Events from the year 1654 in Ireland.
Incumbent
- Lord Protector: Oliver Cromwell
Events
- 24 December – William Petty contracts to undertake an accurate survey of Ireland.
- English Parliamentarian supporters take control of Galway Corporation, dismissing the previous urban elite as "the Tribes of Galway".
- The Fraternity of Physicians of Trinity Hall, predecessor of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, is established in Dublin by Prof. John Stearne.
- William Edmondson establishes what is probably the first Quaker Meeting in Ireland at his house in Lurgan.
- Rathmacknee Castle and lands were confiscated after Thomas Rosseter fought against Oliver Cromwell at Wexford in the Irish Confederate Wars.
Births
- 28 May – Thomas Handcock, politician
- 4 August – Thomas Brodrick, politician
- 11 September – William Handcock, lawyer and politician
- Sir Henry Bingham, 3rd Baronet, lawyer and politician
- Thomas Bligh, politician