1755 in Ireland

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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.^[3]
• 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.^[4]

Births

• 14 May – George Barrington, pickpocket, socialite, Australian pioneer and author (died 1804 in Australia)^[5]
• 7 June – Isidore Lynch, soldier (died 1841)^[6]
• 24 June – John Glendy, Presbyterian minister (died 1832 in the United States)^[7]
• 8 July – James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (died 1836)^[8]
• 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)^[9]
• 25 September – Luke Gardiner, property developer and politician (born c.1690)
• William Richardson, politician.

References

1. 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.
3. The Journal of the Royal Artillery. Royal Artillery Institution. 1944. p. 252. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
4. "Kilwarlin Moravian Church". www.lisburn.com. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
5. Jose, Arthur Wilberforce (1925). The Illustrated Australian Encyclopedia. Angus & Robertson Limited. p. 139. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
6. O'Donovan, Pat Clifford (1992). The Irish in France. De Beauvoir Books. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-9516069-0-2. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
7. Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John (1888). Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Crane-Grimshaw. D. Appleton. p. 665. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
8. MOSSE, Richard B. (1835). The Parliamentary Guide: a Concise History of the Members of Both Houses, Etc. A.H. Billy & Co. p. 25. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
9. Debrett, John (1838). Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. J. G. & F. Rivington. p. 234. Retrieved 7 December 2024.