1691 in Ireland

1691 in Ireland

Events

*12 July - Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of Aughrim
*August–October - Williamite War in Ireland: Siege of Limerick
*3 October - Treaty of Limerick ends the Williamite War. The Flight of the Wild Geese — the departure of the Jacobite army — follows.

Births

* Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill, an Irish language poet, in Churchtown, County Cork.

Deaths

*August - Claud Hamilton, 4th Earl of Abercorn, Jacobite and soldier, fought at the Battle of the Boyne (b.1659). [Cokayne, George E.: "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; Extant, Extinct, or Dormant", page 153.]
*18 September - Giles Alington, 4th Baron Alington (b.1680).
*30 December - Robert Boyle, natural philosopher (b.1627)

Full date unknown

*James Lally, landowner and politician.

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