{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{YearInIrelandNav | 1680 }} Events from the year '''1680 in Ireland'''. ==Incumbent== *Monarch: Charles II ==Events== *29 April – construction of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin as a home for retired soldiers begins to the design of Sir William Robinson.<ref name=Chronology>{{cite book|editor=Moody, T. W.|title=A New History of Ireland. '''8''': A Chronology of Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|isbn=978-0-19-821744-2|display-editors=etal}}</ref> *23 July&ndash;24 July – trial of Oliver Plunkett, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, at Dundalk for conspiracy in the supposed "Popish Plot" ends without indictment<ref name=Chronology/> and on 24 October he is transferred to London. *English antiquarian Thomas Dingley tours Ireland.<ref name=Chronology/> *Edmund Borlase's ''The History of the execrable Irish Rebellion'' is published.<ref name=Chronology/>

==Arts and literature== *The poem-book ''Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe'' is transcribed by Ruairí Ó hUiginn of Sligo at the command of Cormac Ó Neill.

==Births== *4 October – Giles Alington, 4th Baron Alington (d.1691)

*;Full date unknown<!--This is a description list; please see Help:List before changing--> *:*Richard Cantillon, economic theorist (d.1734) *:*Bernard MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (d.1747) *:*Approximate date – Cathal Buí Mac Giolla Ghunna, poet (d.1756)

==Deaths== *30 July – Thomas Butler, 6th Earl of Ossory, soldier and politician (b.1634) *23 August – Thomas Blood, soldier, tried to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671 (b.1618) *September or October – William Steele, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (b.1610) *c. 15 November – Peter Talbot, imprisoned Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (b.1620?)

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