1696 in Ireland

Events from the year 1696 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: William III

Events

 * April 27 – an act of the Parliament of England for encouraging linen manufacture in Ireland allows plain linen to be exported to England without an import tariff being applied.
 * Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to a new wave of Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.

Births

 * December 1 – Francis Burton, politician (d. 1744)
 * Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet, physician and politician (d. 1776)
 * Thomas Drennan, Presbyterian minister (d. 1768)
 * Approximate date – James Latham, portrait painter (d. 1747)
 * Abraham Shackleton, Quaker (d. 1771)

Deaths



 * March 18 – Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (b. 1610)
 * May 9 – Henry Capell, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1638)
 * October? – Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet, politician.
 * December 8 – Sir Charles Porter, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b. 1631)
 * Daibhidh Ó Duibhgheannáin, scribe and poet (b. before 1651)