Events from the year 1697 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: William III Events September 25 – Banishment Act, one of the penal laws, banishes all Roman Catholic ordinaries, including bishops, and regular clergy (members of religious institutions) from Ireland. October 27 – a thunderstorm ignites the arsenal at Athlone Castle. Celbridge Abbey in County Kildare is built as a home by Bartholomew Van Homrigh, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Famine in the Scottish Borders leads to continued Scottish Presbyterian migration from Scotland to Ulster.
Births September 16 – St George Caulfeild, lawyer and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1778) December 27 – Sollom Emlyn, legal writer (d. 1754) James Duchal, Presbyterian (d. 1761) William Ruxton, landowner and member of the Irish House of Commons (d. 1751) approx. date – John Ryder, Archbishop of Tuam (Church of Ireland) (d. 1775)
Deaths December 20 – Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, soldier and politician (b. c.1640) Francis Burke, Franciscan William FitzMaurice, 20th Baron Kerry, peer (b. 1633)
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