Events from the year 1610 in Ireland.
Incumbent Monarch: James I
Events Plantations of Ireland in the north of County Wexford, on lands confiscated from the MacMurrough-Kavanagh clan; and in County Cavan by William Bailie, who begins construction of Bailieborough Castle, and Stephen Butler, who begins establishment of an urban centre at Belturbet. Construction of Antrim Castle is begun. Poet and historian Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) is appointed by the Catholic Church to the cure of souls at Uachtar Achaidh in the parish of Knockgraffon, near Cahir, County Tipperary. Barnabe Rich publishes A New Description of Ireland.
Births 19 October – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (d. 1688) Bonaventure Baron, Franciscan theologian (d. 1696) John Bathe, Jesuit (d. 1649) Guildford Slingsby, politician (d. 1643)
Deaths Approximate date – Patrick Walsh, merchant, ambassador and friar (b. before 1580)
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