1610 in Ireland
Events from the year 1610 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- Plantations of Ireland in the north of County Wexford, on lands confiscated from the MacMurrough-Kavanagh clan; and in County Cavan by William Bailie, who begins construction of Bailieborough Castle, and Stephen Butler, who begins establishment of an urban centre at Belturbet.
- Construction of Antrim Castle is begun.
- Poet and historian Geoffrey Keating is appointed by the Catholic Church to the cure of souls at Uachtar Achaidh in the parish of Knockgraffon, near Cahir, County Tipperary.
- Barnabe Rich publishes A New Description of Ireland.
Births
- 19 October – James Butler, [1st Duke of Ormonde], Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier
- Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian
- John Bathe, Jesuit
- Guildford Slingsby, politician
Deaths
- Approximate date – Patrick [Walsh (friar)|Patrick Walsh], merchant, ambassador and friar