1748 in Ireland

Events from the year 1748 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.
• 9 April: the Newtown Act, allowing non-resident burgesses in parliamentary boroughs, is given royal assent.

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).

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