1748 in Ireland
{{short description|none}}
{{YearInIrelandNav | 1748 }}
Events from the year 1748 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- Leinster House (at this time called Kildare House) in the unfashionable south side of Dublin is completed as a residence for James FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare by Richard Cassels.{{cite web
|url=http://archiseek.com/2010/1745-leinster-house-kildare-street-dublin/|title=1745 – Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin|work=Archiseek|access-date=2011-02-06}}
- 9 April: the Newtown Act, allowing non-resident burgesses in parliamentary boroughs, is given royal assent.
- {{cite journal |title=The Newtown Act of 1748: Revision and Reconstruction |first=A. P. W. |last=Malcomson |journal=Irish Historical Studies |volume=18 |number=71 |date=March 1973 |pages=313–344 |jstor=30005420}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.qub.ac.uk/ild/?func=display_bill&id=1966 |title=Bill Number 0987 |work=Irish Legislation Database |publisher=Queen's University Belfast |access-date=21 March 2014 }}
Births
- 22 May – Thomas Roberts, landscape painter (died 1778).
- Denis Daly, landowner, MP and Mayor of Galway (died 1791).
- Alexander Macomb, senior, merchant and land speculator with Macomb's Purchase in New York (died 1831 in the United States).
- John Ramage, miniature painter (died 1802).
- Approximate date – Henry Conwell, Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia (died 1842).
Deaths
- May – Walter Blake, politician.
- 16 August – Sir James Somerville, 1st Baronet, politician.
- 29 October – Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (born 1698).
References
{{reflist}}
{{Years in Ireland}}
{{Year in Europe|1748}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:1748 In Ireland}}