1618 in Ireland

Events from the year 1618 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: James I

Events

 * 23 January – Charter of Waterford revoked after election of recusants (restored 1626).
 * 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 December – Captain Nicholas Pynnar begins his Survey of the Escheated Counties of Ulster.

Publications

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

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)