1755 in Ireland

Events from the year 1755 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

Events

• 10 April – Essex Bridge across the river Liffey in Dublin is opened to carriage traffic.
• 1 November – the Spanish Arch in Galway is partially destroyed by a tsunami generated by the Lisbon earthquake which is felt across Munster.
• The Commissioners of Inland Navigation order commencement of work on making the River Shannon navigable.
• 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

• 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

• 16 March – Edward Southwell, politician (born 1705)
• 25 September – Luke Gardiner, property developer and politician (born c.1690)
• William Richardson, politician.

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