1618 in Ireland

Events from the year 1618 in Ireland.

← 1617 1616 1615 1614 1613 1618 in Ireland → 1619 1620 1621 1622 1623
Centuries:	15th 16th 17th 18th 19th
Decades:	1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s
See also:	Other events of 1618 List of years in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: James I

Events

• 23 January – Charter of Waterford revoked after election of recusants (restored 1626).^[1]
• 19 February – Richard Wingfield is created first Viscount Powerscourt.
• 1 October – native Irish ordered to leave lands of the British Plantation of Ulster by 1 May 1619 or be fined.^[1]
• 1 December – Captain Nicholas Pynnar begins his Survey of the Escheated Counties of Ulster.^[1]

Publications

• Aodh Mac Cathmhaoil (Hugh MacCaghwell or Hugo Cavellus) publishes Scáthán Shacramuinte na hAthridhe (or Tractatus de poenitentia et indulgentiis) in Irish at Louvain.^[1]

Births

• Thomas Blood, soldier who tries to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671 (d. 1680)

Deaths

• Richard Stanihurst, translator, poet and historian (b. 1547)