1665 in Ireland

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See also:	Other events of 1665 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1665 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch:Charles II

Events

• TheAct of Explanationstates that Cromwellian settlers (with some named exceptions) have to give up one third of the lands they received after 1652 in order to compensate innocent Catholic landowners.
• KingCharles II of Englandand Ireland grantsletters patentto SirRobert Readingto erect sixlighthouseson the coast of Ireland, atHook Head,Old Head of Kinsale,Barry Oge's castle,the Isle of Magee (nearCarrickfergus) andHowth(two).
• King Charles II elevates the office ofMayorofDublintoLord Mayor of Dublin,the first holder beingThe Right HonourableSir Daniel Bellingham.
• Michael Boyle (archbishop of Armagh)is appointedLord Chancellor of Ireland,an office he will hold for more than twenty years.

Births

• 29 April–James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde,soldier and statesman (d.1745)

Deaths

• 3 June–Charles MacCarthy,Irish soldier (killed in battle)
• August –Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry,general in theIrish Confederate Wars