1607_in_Ireland Knowpia

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Events from the year 1607 in Ireland.

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September 14 – Flight of the Earls: Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell flee to Spain to avoid capture by the English crown.^[1]
Plantation of Ulster, following the Flight of the Earls.
- The Kingdom of East Breifne is disestablished and settled by English and Scottish colonists.
- Sir Randall MacDonnell settles 300 Presbyterian Scots families on his land in Antrim.^[2]
- Enniskillen Castle is taken by the English.
- Lifford comes into the possession of Sir Richard Hansard.
Construction of James's Fort, protecting Kinsale harbour, is completed to the design of Paul Ive.^[3]
Construction of Prince Rupert's Tower, protecting Cork Harbour, is completed about this date.

March 20 – Lady Alice Boyle, later Alice Barry, Countess of Barrymore (d. 1667)^[4]
Geoffrey Baron, scholar, lawyer and rebel (d. 1651)
Approximate date – Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Donalong (d. 1679)

^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 241. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Elliott, Marianne (2001). The Catholics of Ulster: A History. New York: Basic Books. p. 88.
^ Stephenson, Charles (2008). 'Servant to The King for His Fortifications': Paul Ive and The Practise of Fortification.
^ Cokayne, G. E.; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. A.; White, Geoffrey H.; Warrand, Duncan; Howard de Walden, Thomas Scott-Ellis, eds. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. I (new (reprint) ed.), Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 443, ISBN 978-0-904387-82-7