1676 in Ireland
# 1676 in Ireland

Events from the year 1676 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: Charles II

## 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 (Lochrann na gCreidmheach), an Irish language catechism of Catholic Church doctrine is published by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome.

## Births

* William Handcock, politician (d. 1723)
* John Rogerson, lawyer and politician (d. 1741)
* Owen Swiny, theatrical impresario and art dealer (d. 1754)
* Caleb Threlkeld, botanist (d. 1728)
* approximate date – John Moore, 1st Baron Moore, politician (d. 1725)

## Deaths

* John-Baptist Hackett, Dominican theologian.
* Richard Lynch, Jesuit theologian (b. 1611)
