1758 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1758 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch

George II

Events

• Summer – work begins on construction of what will become the Grand Canal near Dublin.^[1]
• 27 October – the ship Dublin Trader (Captain White) leaves Parkgate, Cheshire, for Dublin, and founders in the Irish Sea; she carries 70,000 Irish pounds in money and £80,000 in goods, while among the 60 passengers lost are Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda, Theophilus Cibber (the English actor, bound for a season at the Smock Alley Theatre), and (probably) the mezzotint engraver Michael Ford.^[2]
• The agriculturalist Richard Geoghegan reclaims a large tract of land from the sea at Ballyconneely in County Galway.
• Mineral spring discovered at Lucan, Dublin.

Births

• 26 March – Samuel Greg, entrepreneur and pioneer of the factory system at Quarry Bank Mill (died 1834).
• December – Mary Leadbeater, writer (died 1826).
• Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (died 1839).
• Approximate date – Charles "Hindoo" Stuart, East India Company officer (died 1828 in India).

Deaths

• October – Michael Ford, mezzotint engraver.

Notes and References

1. Book: Delany, Ruth. A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast. Appletree Press. 1988. 0-86281-200-3. 76.
2. Web site: Eric. Salmon. Cibber, Theophilus (1703–1758). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 2012-10-31. 10.1093/ref:odnb/5418.