1748 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1748 in Ireland.
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.[1]
- 9 April: the Newtown Act, allowing non-resident burgesses in parliamentary boroughs, is given royal assent.[2]
Births
- 22 May – Thomas Roberts, landscape painter (died 1778).
- 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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References
- "1745 – Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin". Archiseek. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
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- Malcomson, A. P. W. (March 1973). "The Newtown Act of 1748: Revision and Reconstruction". Irish Historical Studies. 18 (71): 313–344. JSTOR 30005420.
- "Bill Number 0987". Irish Legislation Database. Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
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