1795 in Ireland

• Monarch: George III

• 5 June – the Royal College of St Patrick established at Maynooth by Act of Grattan's Parliament to provide university-level education for Roman Catholic ecclesiastical and lay students.
• 15 September – a group of workers felling timber on the estate of Lord Carysfort in County Wicklow discover gold, leading to the Wicklow gold rush.{{Cite news|last=King|first=Anthony|date=2013-03-21|title=The Wicklow gold rush |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-wicklow-gold-rush-1.1332522 |access-date=2024-07-02|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}{{cite journal | last=Vines|first=Gail | title = Histories: The hunt for the Wicklow gold | journal = New Scientist | date = 2007-01-24 | url = https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325882-000-histories-the-hunt-for-the-wicklow-gold/ | access-date = 2024-07-02}}{{sfn|McArdle|2011|page=10}}
• 21 September
• Battle of the Diamond, a violent confrontation between the Catholic Defenders and Protestants including Peep o' Day Boys, Orange Boys and local tenant farmers, takes place near Loughgall, County Armagh.
• The Loyal Orange Institution (Orange Order) is formed in County Armagh following the Battle of the Diamond.{{cite web|title=Parades and Marches – Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events|work=Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN)|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm|access-date=28 January 2010}}
• William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain, replaces the popular and liberal Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Fitzwilliam, with Earl Camden,{{London Gazette|issue=13759|date=10 March 1795|page=229}} an opponent of Catholic emancipation whose arrival in Dublin is greeted with riots.
• Society of the United Irishmen members including Theobald Wolfe Tone and Henry Joy McCracken meet at Cavehill to the north of Belfast.
• The town of Louisburgh, County Mayo, is established by Lord Altamount of Westport to house Catholic refugees fleeing sectarian conflict in the north of Ireland.
• The first Wexford bridge across the River Slaney in the town of Wexford, built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood, is completed.{{cite web |title=The Bridges of Wexford |url=http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/looking-at-places/wexford/aspects-of-county-wexford/the-bridges-of-wexford/ |work=Ask about Ireland |date=2012-12-30 |access-date=2013-02-27}}
• National Botanic Gardens opened by the Royal Dublin Society.

• William Drennan writes the ballad Erin.{{cite web|first=I. R.|last=McBride|title=Drennan, William (1754–1820)|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|edition=Online|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8046|access-date=2013-08-19|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/8046}} {{ODNBsub}}

• 5 May – James Haughton, social reformer and temperance activist (died 1873).
• 20 May – Francis Murphy, first Roman Catholic bishop of Adelaide, South Australia (died 1858).
• 18 July – Hugh Boyd M‘Neile, Anglican churchman (died 1879).
• 16 November – Lord Kingsborough, antiquarian (died 1837).
• Full date unknown – George Darley, poet, novelist and critic (died 1846).

• 14 February – Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, peer (born 1724).
• March – Thomas Conway, soldier (born 1735), in England.
• 22 April – Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, poet (born 1715).
• 11 September – Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare, landowner and politician (born 1726).

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• {{cite book |last=McArdle |first=Peadar |title=Gold Frenzy: The Story of Wicklow's Gold |year=2011 |publisher= Albertine Kennedy Publishing |location=Swinford|isbn= 0-906002-08-7}}

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