- 1691 in Ireland
Events
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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. TheFlight of the Wild Geese — the departure of the Jacobite army — follows.Births
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Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill , anIrish language poet, inChurchtown, County Cork .Deaths
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August -Claud Hamilton, 4th Earl of Abercorn , Jacobite and soldier, fought at theBattle 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
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James Lally , landowner and politician.References
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