1730 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1730 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- First bridge across the River Foyle linking Lifford and Strabane is built.
- First turnpike act for Ireland, for improvement of the road from Dublin to Kilcullen Bridge.{{cite book|title=Strictures on Road Police|first=William|last=Greig|location=Dublin|publisher=Archer, Cumming, etc|year=1818|page=[https://archive.org/details/stricturesonroa00greigoog/page/n71 54]|url=https://archive.org/details/stricturesonroa00greigoog|quote=turnpike Ireland 1730.|access-date=2016-03-10}}
- Edward Lovett Pearce succeeds Thomas Burgh as Surveyor General of Ireland.
Births
- James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon, merchant, landlord and politician (d. 1802)
- Approximate date
- Thomas Barton, missionary clergyman (d. 1780)
- Theophilus Blakeney, politician (d. 1813)
Deaths
- January 29 – Thomas Flynn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh
- August 6 – Sir Thomas Vesey, 1st Baronet, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory (b. 1668?)
- October 3 – Thomas Brodrick, politician (b. 1654)
- December 4 – Edward Southwell, politician (b. 1671)
- December 18 – Colonel Thomas Burgh, Surveyor General of Ireland (b. 1670)
References
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