1697 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III

Events

• September 25 – Banishment Act, one of the penal laws, banishes all Roman Catholic ordinaries, including bishops, and regular clergy from Ireland.
• October 27 – a thunderstorm ignites the arsenal at Athlone Castle.
• Celbridge Abbey in County Kildare is built as a home 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]
• December 27 – Sollom Emlyn, legal writer
• James Duchal, Presbyterian
• William Ruxton, landowner and member of the Irish House of Commons
• approx. date – John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam (Church of Ireland)

Deaths

• December 20 – Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, soldier and politician
• Francis Burke, Franciscan
• William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron Kerry, peer