1626 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles I

Events

• King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland institutes a plantation on the royal estate of Upper Ossory in County Laois.
• Charter of Waterford is restored.

Births

• Willam Dongan, 1st Earl of Limerick

Deaths

• 22 September – Hugh MacCaghwell, Franciscan theologian and archbishop Date unknown – Niall Garve O'Donnell, last Prince of Tyrconnell