1676 in Ireland

Events

• July 31 – the title Viscount Lanesborough is first created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of George Lane, 2nd Baronet, of Tulsk.
• August 28 – Irish Donation of 1676 is shipped from Dublin to relieve Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
• Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh's Lucerna fidelium, seu, Fasciclus decerptus ab authoribus magis versatis qui tractarunt de doctrin a Christiana, an Irish language catechism of Catholic Church doctrine is published by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome.

  Births

• William Handcock, politician
• John Rogerson, lawyer and politician
• Owen Swiny, theatrical impresario and art dealer
• Caleb Threlkeld, botanist
• approximate date – John Moore, 1st Baron Moore, politician

  Deaths

• John-Baptist Hackett, Dominican theologian.
• Richard Lynch, Jesuit theologian