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1606 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1606 in Ireland.

Incumbent

  • Monarch: James I

Events

  • Plantation of Ulster: substantial lowland Scots settlement on disinhibited land in north Down, led by Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton.
  • 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.
  • Anglican churchman William Bedell translates the Book of Common Prayer into Irish.

Births

  • June 16 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, soldier (d. 1675)
  • October – Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell, soldier (d. 1642)
  • approximate date – Claud Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Strabane, nobleman (d. 1638)

Deaths

  • February 21 – Richard Field, superior of the Irish Jesuit mission (b. c.1554)
  • Sir Edmund Pelham, judge (b. c.1533)

References

References

  1. Stewart, A. T. Q.. (1989). "The Narrow Ground: The Roots of Conflict in Ulster". Faber.
  2. Falls, Cyril. (1996). "The Birth of Ulster". Constable.
  3. Perceval-Maxwell, M.. (1999). "The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I". Ulster Historical Foundation.
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