1698 in Ireland
# 1698 in Ireland

Events from the year 1698 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: William III

## Events

* Early – William Molyneux publishes The Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated.
* Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
* The Lord Mayor of Dublin's gold chain of office is presented by King William III to Dublin Corporation.
* John Dunton publishes Teague Land: or A Merry Ramble to the Wild Irish.
* John Hopkins publishes the poem The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin.

## Births

* June 15 – George Browne, soldier of fortune, general in the Russian army (d. 1792)
* Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1748)

## Deaths

* January 15 – Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, cavalier and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1612)
* January – Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, poet (b. 1625)
* October 11 – William Molyneux, natural philosopher and writer, founded the Dublin Philosophical Society (b. 1656)
