1739_in_Ireland Knowpia

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See also:	Other events of 1739 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1739 in Ireland.

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27 April – the trial of Henry Barry, 4th Baron Barry of Santry, before the Irish House of Lords for the drunken murder of a tavern servant in Palmerstown the previous summer opens; he is convicted but later pardoned.
July–August – wet summer, affecting the harvest and the cutting of turf.^[1]
26 September – "Address of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" to George II of Great Britain requesting longer leases.^[1]
6 October – the title Earl of Bessborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, chief commissioner of revenue.^[1]
27 December–February 1740 – the 'Great Frost': unusually harsh winter.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b ^c Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.