1656 in Ireland

Events

• Cromwellian soldier William Morris becomes a Quaker, founding a meeting at Belturbet, County Cavan, before returning to his home at Castle Salem, Cork.
• William Petty completes the comprehensive mapping of Ireland known as the Down Survey.

  Births

• April 17 – William Molyneux, natural philosopher and writer, founder of the Dublin Philosophical Society.

  Deaths

• March 21 – James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, published the Ussher chronology purporting to time and date creation
• Approximate date – Sir Dominick Browne, merchant and landowner