1697 in Ireland
# 1697 in Ireland

Events from the year 1697 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: William III

## 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

* March 8? – Anne Bonny, pirate (d. after 1721 in Jamaica)
* September 16 – St George Caulfeild, lawyer and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1778)
* December 27 – Sollom Emlyn, legal writer (d. 1754)
* James Duchal, Presbyterian (d. 1761)
* William Ruxton, landowner and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1751)
* approx. date – John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam (Church of Ireland) (d. 1775)

## Deaths

* December 20 – Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, soldier and politician (b. c.1640)
* Francis Burke, Franciscan
* William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron Kerry, peer (b. 1633)
