Polemonium Reptans

Events from the year 1697 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: William III

Events

• October 27 – a thunderstorm ignites the arsenal at Athlone Castle.^[1]
• 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)

References