1697 in Ireland

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Events

• 27 October - 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 built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Births

• 16 September - St George Caulfeild, lawyer and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1778)
• 27 December - Sollom Emlyn, legal writer (d. 1754)
• James Duchal, Presbyterian (d. 1761)
• William Ruxton, landowner and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1751)
• Abraham Shackleton, Quaker (d. 1771)
• approx. date - John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam (Church of Ireland) (d. 1775)

Deaths

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