1804 in Ireland

Events from the year 1804 in Ireland.

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See also: 1804 in the United Kingdom
Other events of 1804
List of years in Ireland

Events
11 February – last surviving 1798 rebellion faction destroyed
  • 14 January – Richard Lovell Edgeworth's semaphore line between Dublin and Galway is operational, but is out of use by the end of the year.[1]
  • 11 February – the last armed rebel group of the Society of United Irishmen, led by James Corcoran, is betrayed and killed or captured by yeomen near Enniscorthy.[2]
  • 4–5 March – Castle Hill convict rebellion in New South Wales led by Irish convicts in Australia.[3]
  • April – first boat passes through the Grand Canal throughout between the River Liffey in Dublin and the River Shannon.[4]
  • 14 May – Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin, opens in Cork Street, Dublin.
  • First Martello Tower erected in Ireland, at Sutton, Dublin.[5]
Martello tower (South No.7) at Killiney

Births
  • Early February – James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (died 1864).
  • 4 April – Andrew Nicholl, painter (died 1886).
  • 7 April – James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (died 1869).
  • 18 November – John George, politician, judge and in 1859 Solicitor-General for Ireland (died 1871).
  • 25 December – Frederic Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown, peer (died 1880).
  • 26 December – Sir Joseph Napier, 1st Baronet, Conservative Party MP and Lord Chancellor of Ireland (died 1882).
  • 31 December – Francis Sylvester Mahony, humorist and poet (a.k.a. Father Prout) (died 1866).

Deaths
  • February – James Corcoran, rebel leader (born c.1770).
  • 27 July – Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim, politician (born 1732).

See also

References
  1. Kirwan, Adrian James (2017). "R. L. Edgeworth and optical telegraphy in Ireland, c.1790–1805". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 117C. Dublin: 209–35.
  2. O'Donnell, Ruan (2000). Aftermath: Post-Rebellion Insurgency in Wicklow, 1799–1803. ISBN 0-7165-2638-7.
  3. Whitaker, Anne-Maree. "Castle Hill convict rebellion 1804". Dictionary of Sydney. Retrieved 2013-03-03.
  4. Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 87. ISBN 0-86281-200-3.
  5. "History". Martello Tower Sutton. Archived from the original on February 10, 2010. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
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