1698 in Ireland

Events from the year 1698 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: William III

Events

 * Early – William Molyneux publishes The Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated.
 * Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
 * The Lord Mayor of Dublin's gold chain of office is presented by King William III to Dublin Corporation.
 * John Dunton publishes Teague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish.
 * John Hopkins publishes the poem The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin.

Births



 * June 15 – George Browne, soldier of fortune, general in the Russian army (d. 1792)
 * Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1748)

Deaths



 * January 15 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, cavalier and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1612)
 * January – Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, poet (b. 1625)
 * October 11 – William Molyneux, natural philosopher and writer, founded the Dublin Philosophical Society (b. 1656)