1619 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 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.^[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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Walls Constructed. 2012-07-23. Guildhall Press. August 2005. Derry's Walls. https://web.archive.org/web/20120224131028/http://www.derryswalls.com/hist-walls-constructed.html. 2012-02-24. dead.
2. Book: Moody, T. W.. A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. 1989. 978-0-19-821744-2. etal.