1610_in_Ireland Knowpia

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Events from the year 1610 in Ireland.

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Plantations of Ireland in the north of County Wexford, on lands confiscated from the MacMurrough-Kavanagh clan; and in County Cavan by William Bailie, who begins construction of Bailieborough Castle, and Stephen Butler, who begins establishment of an urban centre at Belturbet.^[1]
Construction of Antrim Castle is begun.
Poet and historian Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) is appointed by the Catholic Church to the cure of souls at Uachtar Achaidh in the parish of Knockgraffon, near Cahir, County Tipperary.
Barnabe Rich publishes A New Description of Ireland.

Approximate date – Patrick Walsh, merchant, ambassador and friar (b. before 1580)

^ Scott, Brendan (2020). Belturbet, County Cavan, 1610-1714: the origins of an Ulster Plantation town. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 9781846828553.
^ Cokayne, G. E.; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. A.; White, Geoffrey H.; Warrand, Duncan; Howard de Walden, Thomas Scott-Ellis, eds. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. X (new (reprint) ed.), Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 149, ISBN 978-0-904387-82-7