1672 in Ireland

Events from the year 1672 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: Charles II

Events

 * February 25 (6 March N.S.) – John O'Molony is consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe in Paris.
 * March 15 – King Charles II of England issues a Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics in his realms; this is withdrawn the following year under pressure from the Parliament of England.
 * May 21 – The Earl of Essex is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (sworn 5 August).
 * September 24 – elected representatives on corporations are to take an Oath of Supremacy to the Crown unless exempted.
 * The office of Lord President of Munster is suppressed.
 * John Lynch's De praesulibus Hiberniae is written (first published in Dublin, 1944).
 * Sir William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland is written (first published in Dublin, 1691); also, engraving of the maps for his Hiberniae Delineatio (published 1685) is completed.

Births

 * March 12 (bapt.) – Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine (d. 1729)
 * August 7 – Michael Hill, politician (d. 1699)
 * William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier (d. 1761)

Deaths

 * August 10 – Robert Leslie, Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher.
 * December 7 – Sir Paul Davys, politician and civil servant (b. c.1600)
 * Approximate date
 * Thomas Carve, historian (b. 1590)
 * Thomas Dillon, 4th Viscount Dillon, peer (b. 1615)