Events from the year 1611 in Ireland.
Incumbent Monarch: James I
Events 18 February – Sir Humphrey Winch, retiring Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, is sent to London with draft legislation. 7 May – surrender and regrant in Counties Carlow, Wexford and Wicklow is authorised. June – Roman Catholic priest Patrick O'Loughran returns from exile. 11 July – 21 October: Lord Carew is in Ireland (as authorised in June) to inquire into its government and report on prospects for the plantation of Ulster (August). 19 August – the Church of Ireland Bishop of Elphin, John Lynch, resigns, declaring himself a Roman Catholic, and is succeeded by Edward King (consecrated December). 25 November – the nobility and gentry claim the right to have advance sight of bills intended for the Parliament of Ireland. Giolla Brighde Ó hEoghusa (Bonaventura Ó hEoghusa or O'Hussey)'s An Teagasc Criosdaidhe is published in Antwerp, the first devotional work in Irish.
Births Richard Lynch, Jesuit theologian (d. 1676) Hugh Dubh O'Neill, 5th Earl of Tyrone, soldier (d. 1660) (born in Brussels) References