1701 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III

Events

• March 14 – all illegal cargoes of grain brought from Ireland to the west of Scotland are ordered to be sunk.
• June 24 – the Act of Settlement 1701, passed by the Parliament of England, becomes law. Sophia of Hanover and her Protestant descendants are next in line to the throne following Anne, the heir apparent to her brother-in-law King William III, ensuring that no Catholic will inherit the throne.
• July 1 – an equestrian statue of King William III by Grinling Gibbons is unveiled by Dublin Corporation on College Green on the 11th anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.
• September 18 – Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, sworn as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Arts and literature

• Marsh's Library in Dublin is established by Narcissus Marsh as the first public library in Ireland with refugee French Huguenot scholar Élie Bouhéreau as its first librarian.
• Upper gallery of the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin collapses for the second time.

Births

• March 11 – Mark Kenton Sr., frontiersman, father of Simon Kenton
• March 11 – Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown
• Unknown
• * Matthew Concanen, wit, poet, playwright and lawyer
• * Matthew Pilkington, art historian and satirist

Deaths

• June – Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Abercorn, peer.