1606 in Ireland

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.
 * 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.
 * 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)