1697 in Ireland

Events from the year 1697 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: William III

Events

 * October 27 – a thunderstorm ignites the arsenal at Athlone Castle.
 * Banishment Act banishes all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church from Ireland.
 * Celbridge Abbey in County Kildare is built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
 * Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.

Births

 * March 8? – Anne Bonny, pirate (d. after 1721 in Jamaica)
 * September 16 – St George Caulfeild, lawyer and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1778)
 * December 27 – Sollom Emlyn, legal writer (d. 1754)
 * James Duchal, Presbyterian (d. 1761)
 * William Ruxton, landowner and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1751)
 * approx. date – John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam (Church of Ireland) (d. 1775)

Deaths

 * December 20 – Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, soldier and politician (b. c.1640)
 * Francis Burke, Franciscan
 * William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron Kerry, peer (b. 1633)