1630 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1630 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- Lismore Cathedral is destroyed.
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh's Félire na naomh nÉrennach ("Calendar of Irish Saints" or "Martyrology of Donegal") is completed.[1]
Births
- Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, soldier (d. 1691)
- Nicholas Ward, politician (d. after 1666)
- Approximate date
- Alexander Fitton, lawyer and politician (d. 1698)
- John Keating, judge (d. 1691, committed suicide)
- Hugh Reily, lawyer and politician (d. 1695)
Deaths
- February 20 – James "Spanish" Blake, spy (b. after 1560)
- June 3 – Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry, soldier (b. 1574)
- Approximate date – Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh, poet and historian (b. before 1603)