1672 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1672 in Ireland.

Incumbent

February 25 (6 March N.S.) – John O'Molony is consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe in Paris.^[1]
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a Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics in his realms; this is withdrawn the following year under pressure from the Parliament of England.^[2]
May 21 – The Earl of Essex is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (sworn 5 August).^[1]
September 24 – elected representatives on corporations are to take an Oath of Supremacy to the Crown unless exempted.^[1]
The office of Lord President of Munster is suppressed.
John Lynch's De praesulibus Hiberniae is written (first published in Dublin, 1944).^[3]
Sir William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland is written (first published in Dublin, 1691);^[1] also, engraving of the maps for his Hiberniae Delineatio (published 1685) is completed.

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)

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)

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.
Book: Williams, Hywel. Cassell's Chronology of World History. registration. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2005. 0-304-35730-8.
John Lynch's De Praesulibus Hiberniae. Aubrey. Gwynn. 37–52. 30099542. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. Irish Province of the Society of Jesus. 34. 133. March 1945.