1816 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.

Events

• The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819.^[1]
• January – Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.^[2]
• 30 January – wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville (military transport ships) off Tramore in a gale with the loss of over 500 persons.^[3]
• 17 March – Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.
• May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.^[4]
• 18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.^[5]
• June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.^[6]
• 29 - 30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.^[7]
• Templemore Town Hall is built in County Tipperary.^[8]

Births

• 6 February – John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto (died 1888).
• 1 March – Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (died 1898).
• 14 March – Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (died 1897).
• 8 April – Frederick William Burton, painter (died 1900).
• 12 April – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (died 1903).
• 31 July – Trevor Chute, British Army officer (died 1886).
• 17 September – John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (died 1900).
• 30 October – Richard Quain, physician (died 1898).

Full date unknown

• John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (died 1906).

• John O'Mahony, a founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood (died 1877).

Deaths

• 24 April – James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (born 1770).
• 3 May – James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War (born 1753).
• 7 July – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (born 1751).

Full date unknown

• Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).

See also

• 1816 in Scotland
• 1816 in Wales

References

1. Book: Hugh, Fenning. Typhus Epidemic in Ireland, 1817–1819: Priests, Ministers, Doctors.. Collectanea Hibernica. 1999. 0-385-40818-8. 117–152.
2. Book: Pilson, James Adair. History of the Rise and Progress of Belfast: And Annals of the County Antrim. John Mullen. 1846. Belfast.
3. Web site: Farrell. Daniel. 2020-01-30. Remembering the Sea Horse lost off Tramore 30th January 1816. 2020-07-06. Coast Monkey. en-GB.
4. Web site: Carty. Ed. 2016-05-19. Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge celebrates 200th birthday. 2020-07-06. The Irish News. en.
5. Book: O'Day, Alan. Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800. Fleming. Neil. Routledge. 2005. 978-0-582-08102-4. NY: USA. 7.
6. Web site: History. The Parish Church of St George, Belfast. 2012-08-01.
7. Book: Dooley, Terence. The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge. Four Courts Press. 2007. 978-1-84682-085-4.
8. Web site: Templemore Town Hall, Main Street, Main Street, KILTILLANE, Templemore, Tipperary North. 2020-07-06. Buildings of Ireland. en-GB.