1715 in Ireland

• Monarch: George I

• County Palatine of Tipperary Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, enables purchase by the crown of rights and revenues in County Tipperary held by the Dukes of Ormonde.
• George Evans is created 1st Baron Carbery in the Peerage of Ireland.

• First record of the actress and writer Eliza Haywood, performing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.{{cite journal|last=Blouch|first=Christine|title=Eliza Haywood and the Romance of Obscurity|journal=SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900|date=Summer 1991|volume=31|issue=3|pages=535–551|jstor=450861|doi=10.2307/450861}}

• Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, pioneer and army officer in colonial New York (d. 1774).
• Patrick Lynch, emigrant to Rio de la Plata and landowner.
• Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, poet (d. 1795).

• December 14 – Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War and governor of the Province of New York (b. 1634)

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