1618 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: James I

  Events

• 23 January – Charter of Waterford revoked after election of recusants.
• 19 February – Richard Wingfield is created first Viscount Powerscourt.
• 1 October – native Irish ordered to leave lands of the British Plantation of Ulster by 1 May 1619 or be fined.
• 1 December – Captain Nicholas Pynnar begins his Survey of the Escheated Counties of Ulster.

  Publications

• Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil publishes Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAthridhe in Irish at Louvain.

  Births

• Thomas Blood, soldier who tries to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671

  Deaths

• Richard Stanihurst, translator, poet and historian