1755 in Ireland

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1755
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
See also:Other events of 1755
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1755 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George II

Events[]

  • 10 April – Essex Bridge across the river Liffey in Dublin is opened to carriage traffic.[1]
  • 1 November – the Spanish Arch in Galway is partially destroyed by a tsunami generated by the Lisbon earthquake which is felt across Munster.[1]
  • The Commissioners of Inland Navigation order commencement of work on making the River Shannon navigable.[2]
  • The Artillery Company of Ireland, predecessor of the Royal Irish Artillery, is formed.
  • Completion of Russborough House, County Wicklow, designed in the Palladian style by Richard Cassels for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown.
  • Kilwarlin Moravian Church is founded in County Down by the evangelist John Cennick.

Births[]

  • 14 May – George Barrington, pickpocket, socialite, Australian pioneer and author (died 1804 in Australia)
  • 7 June – Isidore Lynch, soldier (died 1841)
  • 24 June – John Glendy, Presbyterian minister (died 1832 in the United States)
  • 8 July – James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (died 1836)
  • John Handcock, soldier and politician (died 1786)
  • John Proby Osborne, lawyer and politician (died 1787)
  • Owen Wynne, landowner and politician (died 1841)
  • Approximate date
    • Joseph Allison, farmer and politician in Nova Scotia (died 1806)
    • Joseph Marshall, farmer, judge and politician in Nova Scotia (died 1847)

Deaths[]

  • 16 March – Edward Southwell, politician (born 1705)
  • 25 September – Luke Gardiner, property developer and politician (born c.1690)
  • William Richardson, politician.

References[]

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ Delaney, Ruth (2004). Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press.
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