1675 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1675 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- September 22 – King Charles II of England orders the setting up of a commission to determine the cases of Connacht transplanters.[1]
Births
- February 7 – Hugh Howard, portrait painter (d. 1737 in London)
- May 4 – Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare (d. 1743)
- George Gore, Attorney-General for Ireland (d. 1753)
- Peter Holmes, politician (d. 1732)
- John Hopkins, poet (d. after 1700).
- Popham Seymour, landowner (k. 1699)
- William Stewart, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy, soldier (d. 1728)
- Approximate date – Charles Jervas, portrait painter (d. 1739)
Deaths
- March 16 – Daniel Witter, Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe since 1669.
- March 18 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, soldier and politician (b. 1606)
- August 1 – Patrick Duffy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher since 1673.
- Sir Audley Mervyn, lawyer, politician and soldier (b. 1603?)