1835 in Ireland

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See also:	1835 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1835 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1835 in Ireland.

Events[]

• May 13 – British barque Neva, transporting female convicts from Cork to Australia, is wrecked in the Bass Strait with the loss of 224 people and only 15 survivors.^[1]
• August 5 – Wellesley Bridge opened across the River Shannon in Limerick.
• August 28 – St. Vincent's Ecclesiastical Seminary, a predecessor of Castleknock College, is founded by the Vincentian community in Castleknock.
• September – Eagle Island lighthouses become operational.
• Drenagh House in Limavady, County Londonderry, is completed for the McCausland family. It is architect Charles Lanyon's first major commission.
• Quaker entrepreneur Charles Bewley lands an unprecedented cargo of 2,000 chests of tea shipped directly from China to Dublin, thereby breaking the East India Company's monopoly in the commodity.
• The Herdman brothers begin flax spinning at Sion Mills in County Tyrone.
• The Grand Hotel at Malahide opens for business and has been in continuous use as a hotel ever since.
• The remains of Jonathan Swift are uncovered during work on St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and inspected by William Wilde, an apprentice surgeon at this time.

Map of Dublin, 1835.

Births[]

• 20 February – Robert Hart, British diplomat and official in the Imperial Chinese government (died 1911 in England).
• 9 April – Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore, soldier, politician and Lord Lieutenant for County Tyrone (died 1913).
• 3 June – Eliza Lynch, First Lady of Paraguay (died 1886).
• 1 July – Samuel McCaughey, pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia (died 1919).
• 7 July – Richard Mayne, British admiral, explorer and MP (died 1892).
• 4 September – Abraham Boulger, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1900).
• 18 September – Thomas Grady, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, the Crimea (died 1891).
• November – Matthew Gibney, priest, in 1880 in Australia, tended the seemingly seriously wounded Ned Kelly, heard his confession and gave him the last rites (died 1925).

Deaths[]

• 15 September – Alexander McDonnell, chess master (born 1798).
• 25 December – Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Irish language poet, "last of the wandering bards" (born 1779).

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