title: 1676 in Ireland
text: # 1676 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1676 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: Charles II
  
  ## Events
  
  * July 31 – the title Viscount Lanesborough is first created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of George Lane, 2nd Baronet, of Tulsk.
  * August 28 – Irish Donation of 1676 is shipped from Dublin to relieve Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  * Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh's Lucerna fidelium, seu, Fasciclus decerptus ab authoribus magis versatis qui tractarunt de doctrin a Christiana (Lochrann na gCreidmheach), an Irish language catechism of Catholic Church doctrine is published by the Congregation of Propaganda Fide in Rome.
  
  ## Births
  
  * William Handcock, politician (d. 1723)
  * John Rogerson, lawyer and politician (d. 1741)
  * Owen Swiny, theatrical impresario and art dealer (d. 1754)
  * Caleb Threlkeld, botanist (d. 1728)
  * approximate date – John Moore, 1st Baron Moore, politician (d. 1725)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * John-Baptist Hackett, Dominican theologian.
  * Richard Lynch, Jesuit theologian (b. 1611)
  