1672 in Ireland

Centuries:	15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th;
Decades:	1650s; 1660s; 1670s; 1680s; 1690s;
See also:	Other events of 1672 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1672 in Ireland.

Incumbent

February 25 (6 March N.S.) – John O'Molony is consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe in Paris.^[1]
March 15 – King Charles II of England issues a Royal Declaration of Indulgence, suspending execution of Penal Laws against Roman Catholics in his realms; this is withdrawn the following year under pressure from the Parliament of England.^[2]
May 21 – The Earl of Essex is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (sworn 5 August).^[1]
September 24 – elected representatives on corporations are to take an Oath of Supremacy to the Crown unless exempted.^[1]
The office of Lord President of Munster is suppressed.
John Lynch's De praesulibus Hiberniae is written (first published in Dublin, 1944).^[3]
Sir William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland is written (first published in Dublin, 1691);^[1] also, engraving of the maps for his Hiberniae Delineatio (published 1685) is completed.

March 12 (bapt.) – Richard Steele, writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator magazine (d. 1729)
August 7 – Michael Hill, politician (d. 1699)
William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney, soldier (d. 1761)

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Gwynn, Aubrey (March 1945). "John Lynch's De Praesulibus Hiberniae". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 34 (133). Irish Province of the Society of Jesus: 37–52. JSTOR 30099542.