1680 in Ireland

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Events from the year 1680 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

• Monarch: Charles II

Events[]

• April 29 – construction of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin as a home for retired soldiers begins to the design of Sir William Robinson.^[1]
• July 23–July 24 – trial of Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, at Dundalk for conspiracy in the supposed "Popish Plot" ends without indictment^[1] and on 24 October he is transferred to London.
• English antiquarian Thomas Dingley tours Ireland.^[1]
• Edmund Borlase's The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion is published.^[1]

Arts and literature[]

• The poem-book Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe is transcribed by Ruairí Ó hUiginn of Sligo at the command of Cormac Ó Neill.

Births[]

• October 4 – Giles Alington, 4th Baron Alington (d.1691)

• Full date unknown

  • Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (d.1734)
  • Bernard MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (d.1747)
  • Approximate date – Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, poet (d.1756)

Deaths[]

• July 30 – Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, soldier and politician (b.1634)
• August 23 – Thomas Blood, soldier, tried to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671 (b.1618)
• September or October – William Steele, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b.1610)
• c. November 15 – Peter Talbot, imprisoned Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (b.1620?)

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