1619 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: James I

Events

• March – construction of the walls of Derry by The Honourable The Irish Society is completed, at a cost of £10,757.
• 28 March – Captain Nicholas Pynnar completes his Survey of the Escheated Counties of Ulster.
• 1 May – native Irish ordered to leave lands of the British Plantation of Ulster by this date or be fined.
• 3 October – Lancelot Bulkeley is consecrated Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland), an office he will hold until 1650.
• Stewart Castle, Newtownstewart, County Tyrone, is built by Sir Robert Newcomen.
• Dermod O'Meara's text on genetic disorders, De Moribus: Pathologia Haereditaria Generalis is published in Dublin, the first work in Latin and the first medical text published in Ireland.

Births

• Dudley Loftus, jurist and orientalist (d. 1695)

Deaths

• 10 April – Thomas Jones, Protestant churchman (b. c.1550).
• Christopher St Lawrence, 10th Baron Howth, statesman (b. c.1568)

References

References

1. (August 2005). "Walls Constructed". Guildhall Press.
2. (1989). "A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History". Oxford University Press.