1672 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: Charles II

Events

• February 25 (6 March N.S.) – John O'Molony is consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe in Paris.
• March 15 – King Charles II of England issues a Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics in his realms; this is withdrawn the following year under pressure from the Parliament of England.
• May 21 – The Earl of Essex is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (sworn 5 August).
• September 24 – elected representatives on corporations are to take an Oath of Supremacy to the Crown unless exempted.
• The office of Lord President of Munster is suppressed.
• John Lynch's De praesulibus Hiberniae is written (first published in Dublin, 1944).
• Sir William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland is written (first published in Dublin, 1691); also, engraving of the maps for his Hiberniae Delineatio (published 1685) is completed.

Births

• March 12 (bapt.) – Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine (d. 1729)
• August 7 – Michael Hill, politician (d. 1699)
• William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier (d. 1761)

Deaths

• August 10 – Robert Leslie, Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher.
• December 7 – Sir Paul Davys, politician and civil servant (b. c.1600)
• Approximate date
  • Thomas Carve, historian (b. 1590)
  • Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount Dillon, peer (b. 1615)

References

References

1. (1989). "A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History". Oxford University Press.
2. Gwynn, Aubrey. (March 1945). "John Lynch's ''De Praesulibus Hiberniae''". Irish Province of the Society of Jesus.