1678 in Ireland
Events from the year 1678 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 11 October – Peter Talbot, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, having returned to Ireland in May, is arrested near Maynooth on the orders of James Butler, 1st [Duke of Ormonde|James Butler, Duke of Ormonde], Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for supposed complicity in the "Popish Plot" and imprisoned in Dublin Castle.
- The vacant Bishopric of Leighlin is given to the Bishop of Kildare to form the Roman [Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin].
- About 1,200 Irish families sail from Barbados to Virginia and the Carolinas.
Births
- 26 September – Peter Lacy, soldier, imperial commander in Russia
- 1677 or 1678 – George Farquhar, dramatist
Deaths
- 23 August – Nicholas French, Bishop of Ferns, political activist and pamphleteer