1672 in Ireland
Events from the year 1672 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- February 25 – John O'Molony is consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe in Paris.
- March 15 – King Charles II of England issues a Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics in his realms; this is withdrawn the following year under pressure from the Parliament of England.
- May 21 – The Earl of Essex is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
- September 24 – elected representatives on corporations are to take an Oath of Supremacy to the Crown unless exempted.
- The office of Lord President of Munster is suppressed.
- John Lynch's De praesulibus Hiberniae is written.
- Sir William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland is written ; also, engraving of the maps for his Hiberniae Delineatio is completed.
Births
- March 12 – Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine
- August 7 – Michael Hill, politician
- William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier
Deaths
- August 10 – Robert Leslie, Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher.
- December 7 – Sir Paul Davys, politician and civil servant
- Approximate date
- *Thomas Carve, historian
- *Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount Dillon, peer