1816 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s;
See also:	1816 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1816; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1816 in Ireland.

Events[edit]

TheYear Without a Summer– famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819.^[1]
January –Belfast Savings Bankopens for business.^[2]
30 January –wrecking of theSea Horse,BoadiceaandLord Melville(military transport ships) offTramorein a gale with the loss of over 500 persons.^[3]
17 March –Richmond Bridge,designed byJames Savage,is opened overDublin'sRiver Liffey.^[4]
May – theHa'penny Bridgeis opened over Dublin's River Liffey.^[5]
18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.^[6]
June –St. George's Church, Belfast,is opened, the oldest in the city built for theUnited Church of England and Ireland.^[7]
29–30 October –Wildgoose Lodge Murders:eight people are burned to death by a gang inCounty Louth.^[8]
Templemore Town Hallis built inCounty Tipperary.^[9]

6 February –John Joseph Lynch,Bishop of Toronto(died1888).
1 March –Charles Magill,member of the1st Canadian ParliamentandmayorofHamilton(died1898).
14 March –Anthony O'Grady Lefroy,governmentofficial inWestern Australia(died1897).
8 April –Frederick William Burton,painter (died1900).
12 April –Charles Gavan Duffy,nationalistandAustraliancolonial politician (died1903).
31 July –Trevor Chute,British Armyofficer (died1886).
17 September –John Hawkins Hagarty,lawyer, teacher and judge inCanada(died1900).
30 October –Richard Quain,physician (died1898).
Full date unknown
- John Drummond,early settler and explorer inWestern Australia,first Inspector ofNative Policethere (died1906).
- John O'Mahony,a founding member of theFenian Brotherhood(died1877).

24 April –James Orr,rhyming weaver poet (born1770).
3 May –James McHenry,signer of theUnited States ConstitutionfromMaryland,thirdUnited States Secretary of War(born1753).
7 July –Richard Brinsley Sheridan,playwright and statesman (born1751).
Full date unknown
- Robert Fagan,painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).

^Hugh, Fenning (1999).Typhus Epidemic in Ireland, 1817–1819: Priests, Ministers, Doctors.Collectanea Hibernica. pp. 117–152.ISBN 0-385-40818-8.
^Pilson, James Adair (1846).History of the Rise and Progress of Belfast: And Annals of the County Antrim.Belfast: John Mullen.
^Farrell, Daniel (30 January 2020)."Remembering the Sea Horse lost off Tramore | 30th January 1816".Coast Monkey.Retrieved6 July2020.
^O'Donovan Rossa BridgeatStructurae
^Carty, Ed (19 May 2016)."Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge celebrates 200th birthday".The Irish News.Retrieved6 July2020.
^O'Day, Alan; Fleming, Neil (2005).Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800.NY: USA: Routledge. p. 7.ISBN 978-0-582-08102-4.
^"History".The Parish Church of St George, Belfast.Retrieved1 August2012.
^Dooley, Terence (2007).The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge.Four Courts Press.ISBN 978-1-84682-085-4.
^"Templemore Town Hall, Main Street, Main Street, KILTILLANE, Templemore, Tipperary North".Buildings of Ireland.Retrieved6 July2020.