1606 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1606 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- Plantation of Ulster: substantial lowland Scots settlement on disinhibited land in north Down, led by Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton.[1][2][3]
- County Wicklow becomes the last of the traditional counties of Ireland to be shired, from land previously part of counties Dublin and Carlow.
- Donal of the Pipes, 13th Prince of Carbery, chooses to surrender and regrant his barony to the Crown of England.[4]
- Anglican churchman William Bedell translates the Book of Common Prayer into Irish.
Births
- June 16 â Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, soldier (d. 1675)
- October â Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell, soldier (d. 1642)
- approximate date â Claud Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Strabane, nobleman (d. 1638)
Deaths
- February 21 â Richard Field, superior of the Irish Jesuit mission (b. c.1554)
- Sir Edmund Pelham, judge (b. c.1533)