1696 in Ireland
Events from the year 1696 in Ireland.
Incumbent
- Monarch: William III
Events
- April 27 – an act of the Parliament of England for encouraging linen manufacture in Ireland allows plain linen to be exported to England without an import tariff being applied.
- May 2 – The Irish Admiralty’s prize commissioners lodged embezzlement charges related to captured French goods, mainly wines, valued at over £7,279. The suit targeted naval officers such as: Captains Bing, Shovell, and Fitz-Patrick.
- Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian Plantation of Ulster#Continued migration from [Scotland to Ulster|migration from Scotland to Ulster].
Births
- December 1 – Francis Burton, politician
- Sir [Edward Barry, 1st Baronet], physician and politician
- Thomas Drennan, Presbyterian minister
- Approximate date – James Latham, portrait painter
- Abraham Shackleton, Quaker
Deaths
- March 18 – Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian
- May 9 – Henry Capell, 1st [Baron Capell of Tewkesbury|Henry Capell], Lord Deputy of Ireland
- October? – Sir [Oliver St George, 1st Baronet], politician.
- December 8 – Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
- Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin, scribe and poet