1697 in Ireland

Events

• October 27 – 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 is built by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
• Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.

  Births

• September 16 – St George Caulfeild, lawyer and member of the Irish House of Commons
• December 27 – Sollom Emlyn, legal writer
• James Duchal, Presbyterian
• William Ruxton, landowner and member of the Irish House of Commons
• Abraham Shackleton, Quaker
• approx. date
• *Anne Bonny, pirate
• *John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam

  Deaths

• December 20 – Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, soldier and politician
• Francis Burke, Franciscan
• William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron Kerry, peer