1622 in Ireland

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Map of Derry, 1622.

Events from the year 1622 in Ireland.

Events

• A commission of inquiry into the Dublin Castle administration is sent from England, headed by Dudley Digges and including James Perrot.[1]
• April 18 – Oliver St John surrenders the office of Lord Deputy of Ireland. He has served since 1616.[2]
• May 3 – Hugh Montgomery is created 1st Viscount Montgomery, of the Great Ardes, in the Peerage of Ireland.
• September 18 – Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, is sworn in as Lord Deputy of Ireland.[3]
• Thomas Dease is consecrated Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath, returning to Ireland from Paris.
• Frederick Hamilton is given lands in Leitrim.

Births

Deaths

• November 10 – Henry Folliott, 1st Baron Folliott, settled in and developed Ballyshannon area (b. c.1568)[4]
• November 14 – Miler Magrath, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel since 1571 and Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor 1565–1580 (sic.) (b. c.1523)

References

1. Treadwell, Victor (2006). The Irish Commission of 1622: An Investigation of the Irish Administration, 1615-1622, and Its Consequences, 1623-1624. Irish Manuscripts Commission. ISBN 978-1-874280-63-7.
2. Lotz-Heumann, Ute (2004). "St John, Oliver, first Viscount Grandison of Limerick (1559–1630)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24501. Retrieved 2012-10-15. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
3. Kelsey, Sean (2004). "Cary, Henry, first Viscount Falkland (c.1575–1633)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4837. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
4. Cokayne, G. E.; Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. A.; White, Geoffrey H.; Warrand, Duncan; Howard de Walden, Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Lord, eds. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, V (new (reprint) ed.), Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 543, ISBN 978-0-904387-82-7 (Cited at thePeerage.com, which accessed 21 May 2019)