1716 in Ireland

Events from the year 1716 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George I

Events

• June 20 – acts of the Parliament of Ireland for:
• Confiscating the estates of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde and vesting them in the Crown, and abolishing the county palatine of Tipperary.
• Drainage and navigation of the River Shannon.
• The titles Viscount Molesworth and Baron Philipstown, of Swords in the County of Dublin, are created in the Peerage of Ireland for Robert Molesworth.

Arts and literature

• November 12 – Johann Sigismund Kusser (Cousser) is appointed "Master of the Music, attending His Majesties State in Ireland".
• Sarah Butler's Irish Tales is published in London.

Births

• November 1 – Tichborne Aston, politician (d. 1748)
• William Fisher, politician in Nova Scotia (d. 1777)
• Charles Tottenham, politician (d. 1795)
• Approximate date
• James Daly, politician (d. 1769)
• Richard Tyrell, naval officer (d. 1766)

Deaths

• August 6 – Paul Davys, 1st Viscount Mount Cashell, nobleman (b. c. 1670)
• October 17 – Henry Folliott, 3rd Baron Folliott, nobleman, landowner and politician.
• Patrick Donnelly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dromore and poet (b. 1650)
• Garret Morphey, painter (b. c. 1650)
• 1716 or 1718 – Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, historian (b. 1629)

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