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1755 in Ireland
Summary
Events from the year
1755 in Ireland
.
←
1754
1753
1752
1751
1750
1755
in
Ireland
→
1756
1757
1758
1759
1760
Centuries:
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th
Decades:
1730s
1740s
1750s
1760s
1770s
See also:
Other events of 1755
List of years in Ireland
Incumbent
edit
Monarch
:
George II
Events
edit
10 April –
Essex Bridge
across the
river Liffey
in
Dublin
is opened to carriage traffic.
[1]
1 November – the
Spanish Arch
in
Galway
is partially destroyed by a
tsunami
generated by the
Lisbon earthquake
which is felt across
Munster
.
[1]
The Commissioners of Inland Navigation order commencement of work on making the
River Shannon
navigable.
[2]
The Artillery Company of Ireland, predecessor of the
Royal Irish Artillery
, is formed.
Completion of
Russborough House
,
County Wicklow
, designed in the
Palladian style
by
Richard Cassels
for
Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown
.
Kilwarlin Moravian Church
is founded in County Down by the evangelist
John Cennick
.
Births
edit
14 May –
George Barrington
, pickpocket, socialite, Australian pioneer and author (died
1804 in Australia
)
7 June –
Isidore Lynch
, soldier (died 1841)
24 June –
John Glendy
,
Presbyterian
minister (died
1832 in the United States
)
8 July –
James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye
, politician (died
1836
)
John Handcock
, soldier and politician (died
1786
)
John Proby Osborne
, lawyer and politician (died
1787
)
Owen Wynne
, landowner and politician (died
1841
)
Approximate date
Joseph Allison
, farmer and politician in
Nova Scotia
(died 1806)
Joseph Marshall
, farmer, judge and politician in Nova Scotia (died 1847)
Deaths
edit
16 March –
Edward Southwell
, politician (born
1705
)
25 September –
Luke Gardiner
, property developer and politician (born c.1690)
William Richardson
, politician.
References
edit
^
a
b
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
.
^
Delaney, Ruth (2004).
Ireland's Inland Waterways
. Belfast: Appletree Press.