Events from the year 1619 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- March – construction of the walls of Derry by The Honourable The Irish Society is completed, at a cost of £10,757.[1]
- 28 March – Captain Nicholas Pynnar completes his Survey of the Escheated Counties of Ulster.[2]
- 1 May – native Irish ordered to leave lands of the British Plantation of Ulster by this date or be fined.[2]
- 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[2] 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
- ^ "Walls Constructed". Derry's Walls. Guildhall Press. August 2005. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ^ a b c Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
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