1725 in Ireland

Events

• June 24 – first recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.
• Irish Presbyterian ministers who refuse to subscribe at ordination to the Westminster Confession form the Presbytery of Antrim.

  Births

• May 15 – James Fortescue, politician
• September 27 – Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician
• September 28 – Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family
• December 20 – John Parr, Governor of Nova Scotia
• Robert Hellen, English-born lawyer and politician
• Alexander McNutt, British Army officer and coloniser of Nova Scotia

  Deaths

• March 31 – Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, Chancellor of the Exchequer of England and Lord Treasurer of Ireland
• April 16 – James Barry, politician
• December 26 – Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison, heiress
• James Terry, Jacobite officer of arms.