1637 in Ireland
# 1637 in Ireland

Events from the year 1637 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: Charles I

## Events

* February – Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seeks approbation for the text of the Annals of the Four Masters from Thomas Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic), before carrying the manuscript to Leuven.
* May 25 – letters patent authorise 'Laudian statutes' for Trinity College Dublin.
* July 25 – Christopher Wandesford acquires an estate at Castlecomer, County Kilkenny.
* August 10 – Edward King is drowned in the Irish Sea en route to visiting his family in Ireland, an event which inspires fellow poet Milton's elegy Lycidas.
* December 22 – a charter incorporates the guild of goldsmiths in Dublin and the Dublin Assay Office is established.

## Births

* Sir Stephen Rice, lawyer (d. 1715)
* Approximate date – Richard Head, writer and bookseller (d. c.1686)

## Deaths

* August 10 – Edward King, poet (b. 1612)
* Sir Nathaniel Catelyn, lawyer and politician (b. c.1580)
