1824 in Ireland

• 19 November – Edward Kernan appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, in succession to James Murphy, an office he will hold until 1844.
• Foundation of the Northern Banking Company.
• The Ordnance Survey of Ireland is established.{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Angèle|year=1998|title=Landscapes of Power in Nineteenth Century Ireland: Archaeology and Ordnance Survey Maps|journal=Archaeological Dialogues|publisher=Cambridge University Press|issue=5|pages=69–84|doi=10.1017/S1380203800001173|volume=5}}
• The UK Weights and Measures Act5 Geo. 4. c. 74. {{cite book|author=Great Britain|title=The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1807–1865)|url=https://archive.org/details/statutesunitedk02britgoog|access-date=2011-12-31|year=1824|publisher=His Majesty's Statute and Law Printers|pages=[https://archive.org/details/statutesunitedk02britgoog/page/n373 339]–354}} legally abolishes use of the Irish mile for most official purposes.{{cite journal|author=Austin Bourke, P. M.|date=March 1965|title=Notes on Some Agricultural Units of Measurement in Use in Pre-Famine Ireland|journal=Irish Historical Studies|volume=14|issue=55|jstor=30005524|pages=236–245}}
• The Shelbourne Hotel is established on St Stephen's Green, Dublin, by Martin Burke.
• Northern Whig newspaper is founded in Belfast.{{cite web|title=Northern Whig|url=http://www.nli.ie/en/NewspapersDetails.aspx?IndexNo=1187|work=National Library of Ireland|accessdate=2021-12-18}}
• Thomas Crofton Croker publishes his first study of Irish folklore, Researches in the South of Ireland.

• 23 April – William Nash, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Lucknow, India (died 1875).
• 28 May – Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association (died 1902).
• 26 June – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (died 1907).
• August – Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1864).
• 1 December – Thomas Henry Fitzgerald, farmer and politician in Queensland, Australia (died 1888).
• 12 December – William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (died 1909).
• ;Full date unknown
• :*John Coghlan, public works engineer in Argentina (died 1890).
• :*Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1889).
• :*John O'Hart, genealogist (died 1902).
• :*Charles Irwin, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1873).
• :*John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War (died 1867).
• :*Edward Whelan, politician, one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation (died 1867).

• 21 January – Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor of various British territories in West Africa (born 1764).
• 17 April – William Ashford, landscape painter (born 1746 in England).
• 16 June – Walter Thom, journalist (born 1770 in Scotland).
• 24 August – Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (born 1752).
• 30 October – Charles Maturin, clergyman, novelist and playwright (born 1782).
• 9 November – Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley, politician (born 1745).
• 19 November – Bishop James Murphy, Bishop of Clogher 1801–1824 (born 1744).
• 5 December – Thomas McCord, businessman and politician in Lower Canada (born 1750).

• 1824 in Scotland
• 1824 in Wales

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