1748 in Ireland

Events from the year 1748 in Ireland.

1748
in
Ireland
Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1720s
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
See also:Other events of 1748
List of years in Ireland

Incumbent

  • Monarch: George II

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.[1]
  • 9 April: the Newtown Act, allowing non-resident burgesses in parliamentary boroughs, is given royal assent.[2]

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

  1. "1745 – Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin". Archiseek. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
    • Malcomson, A. P. W. (March 1973). "The Newtown Act of 1748: Revision and Reconstruction". Irish Historical Studies. 18 (71): 313–344. JSTOR 30005420.
    • "Bill Number 0987". Irish Legislation Database. Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
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