1606 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1606 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

James I

Events

• Plantation of Ulster

substantial lowland Scots settlement on disinhabited land in north Down, led by Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton.^{[1] [2] [3]}

• 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.^[4]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Book: Stewart, A. T. Q.. The Narrow Ground: The Roots of Conflict in Ulster. London. Faber. New. 1989. 38.
2. Book: Falls, Cyril. The Birth of Ulster. London. Constable. 1996. 156–157.
3. Book: Perceval-Maxwell, M.. The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I. Belfast. Ulster Historical Foundation. 1999. 55.
4. MacCarthy Reagh, Florence. 34.