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Peerage of Ireland

titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord, than King of Ireland, and later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland

26 dated entries naming Peerage of Ireland, drawn from 25 separate years between 1541 CE and 1767 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1541June 11 – The Barony of Dunboyne is created by patent in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Edmond Butler.source
  • 1543July 1 – Murrough O'Brien surrenders his Irish royalty to King Henry VIII of England and in the same year becomes a member of the Privy Council of England and is raised to the Peerage of Ireland as 1st Earl of Thomond and 1st Baron Inchiquin and may have reconstructed Dromoland Castle.source
  • 1565Donald McCarthy Mór is created 1st (and only) Earl of Clancare and Baron Valencia in the Peerage of Ireland (24 June) as part of the surrender and regrant of Ireland to the English Crown.source

17th century

  • 1617May 8 – title of Baron Hamilton of Strabane in the County of Tyrone created in the Peerage of Ireland for the 13-year-old James Hamilton, Master of Abercorn.source
  • 1620The titles of Earl of Cork and Viscount of Dungarvan are created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Richard Boyle, Lord Boyle.source
  • 16223 May – The Montgomery Viscountcy of the Great Ards in the Peerage of Ireland is created for Hugh Montgomery.source
  • 1624May 11 – the title of Baron Brereton, of Leighlin in the County of Carlow, is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Sir William Brereton.source
  • 1627The title Earl of Meath is created in the Peerage of Ireland. Since its creation the title has remained in the Brabazon family.source
  • 1631December 22 – the titles of Viscount Clanmalier and Baron Phillipstown are created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Terence O'Dempsey.source
  • 16463 March – the title of Earl of Leinster in the Peerage of Ireland is created for Robert Cholmondeley.source
  • 1661The Earldom of Drogheda is created in the Peerage of Ireland.source
  • 1676July 31 – the title Viscount Lanesborough is first created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of George Lane, 2nd Baronet, of Tulsk.source
  • 1677Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, is created 1st Earl of Longford in the Peerage of Ireland.source
  • 1683The titles of Viscount Mountjoy and Baron Stewart of Ramelton in the Peerage of Ireland are conferred upon Sir William Stewart, 3rd Baronet, of Ramelton.source
  • 1692November – Henri de Massue, 2nd Marquis de Ruvigny, a French Huguenot soldier in English service and commander in chief in Ireland for a time this year, is created Viscount Galway and Baron Portarlington in the Peerage of Ireland and receives a large grant of seized estates in Ireland.source
  • 16955 June – the title of Viscount Lisburne and Baron Fethard, of Feathered in the County of Tipperary is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Welsh politician John Vaughan.source

18th century

  • 1715George Evans is created 1st Baron Carbery in the Peerage of Ireland.source
  • 1716The titles Viscount Molesworth and Baron Philipstown, of Swords in the County of Dublin, are created in the Peerage of Ireland for Robert Molesworth.source
  • 171618 July – Melusine von der Schulenburg, mistress of George I, is created for life Duchess of Munster, Marchioness of Dungannon, Countess of Dungannon and Baroness Dundalk, in the Peerage of Ireland.source
  • 1721The title Baron Bessborough, of Bessborough, Piltown in the County of Kilkenny, is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of William Ponsonby.source
  • 1723March 12 – the title of Viscount Palmerston is created in the Peerage of Ireland for the politician Henry Temple.source
  • 17396 October – the title Earl of Bessborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, chief commissioner of revenue.source
  • 17515 October – the title Earl of Upper Ossory is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of John FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Gowran.source
  • 1756The title Earl of Lanesborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Humphrey Butler, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough.source
  • 1757December 31 – the title of Viscount Ligonier of Enniskillen is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Field Marshal John Ligonier.source
  • 1767The titles Earl of Howth and Viscount St Lawrence are created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Thomas St Lawrence, 15th Baron Howth.source

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