title: 1687 in Ireland
text: # 1687 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1687 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: James II
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 8 – the Roman Catholic Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland.
  * Early – the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Sir Charles Porter, is dismissed on a charge of taking bribes and replaced by Sir Alexander Fitton, a Protestant who converts to Catholicism.
  * October – the Roman Catholic Thomas Nugent is appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in succession to William Davys.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Arthur Blennerhassett, lawyer and politician (d. 1758)
  * John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham, peer and politician (d. 1759)
  * Thomas Sheridan, Anglican divine and writer (d. 1738)
  * 1686/1687 – Bridget Kavanah, claimed supercentenarian (d. 1805)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * November 26 – Vere Essex Cromwell, 4th Earl of Ardglass, peer (b. 1625)
  * Roger Boyle, Church of Ireland Bishop of Clogher (b. 1617?)
  * William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde, peer.
  * William Davys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (fl. 1633)
  