1610 in Ireland

Events from the year 1610 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: James I

Events

 * Plantations of Ireland in the north of County Wexford, on lands confiscated from the MacMurrough-Kavanagh clan; and in County Cavan by William Bailie, who begins construction of Bailieborough Castle, and Stephen Butler, who begins establishment of an urban centre at Belturbet.
 * Construction of Antrim Castle is begun.
 * Poet and historian Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) is appointed by the Catholic Church to the cure of souls at Uachtar Achaidh in the parish of Knockgraffon, near Cahir, County Tipperary.
 * Barnabe Rich publishes A New Description of Ireland.

Births

 * 19 October – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
 * Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (d. 1696)
 * John Bathe, Jesuit (d. 1649)
 * Guildford Slingsby, politician (d. 1643)

Deaths

 * Approximate date – Patrick Walsh, merchant, ambassador and friar (b. before 1580)