1809 in Ireland

Events from the year 1809 in Ireland.

Events

October – completion of the Military Road across the Wicklow Mountains.{{cite web|url=http://www.glendalough.connect.ie/pages/articles/militaryroad/militaryroad.html|title=The Military Road|first=John|last=Godden|year=1999|access-date=2012-08-02}}
21 October – Nelson's Pillar opened in Sackville Street, Dublin.
The first Roman Catholic Magdalene asylum in Ireland is opened in Cork.{{cite web|url=http://www.bestirishfacts.com/magdalene_laundries.html|title=Magdalene Laundries|work=Best Irish Facts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326221622/http://www.bestirishfacts.com/magdalene_laundries.html|archive-date=26 March 2012}}
Blessington Street Basin was opened as a small drinking water reservoir in the north inner city of Dublin in 1809, paid for by Dublin Corporation.{{sfn|Clarke|1993|page=51}} The reservoir was initially named after King George III, and was fed from a 1km-long canal spur that came off the main Royal Canal to meet Broadstone railway station at a harbour in front of it.{{sfn|Fingal County Council|2011|page=7}} The ground alone, covering merely an acre, cost the Corporation £1,052-9s-2d.{{sfn|Clarke|1993|page=51}}

Jonah Barrington's Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of the Legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland is published.
Edward Bunting's A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland is published.

1 May – Samuel Blackall, soldier, politician and second Governor of Queensland, Australia (died 1871).
James Duffy, author and publisher (died 1871).

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