1730 in Ireland

Events

• First bridge across the River Foyle linking Lifford and Strabane is built.
• First turnpike act for Ireland, for improvement of the road from Dublin to Kilcullen Bridge.
• Edward Lovett Pearce succeeds Thomas Burgh as Surveyor General of Ireland.

  Births

• James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon, merchant, landlord and politician
• Approximate date
• *Thomas Barton, missionary clergyman
• *Theophilus Blakeney, politician

  Deaths

• January 29 – Thomas Flynn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh
• August 6 – Sir Thomas Vesey, 1st Baronet, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory
• October 3 – Thomas Brodrick, politician
• December 4 – Edward Southwell, politician
• December 18 – Colonel Thomas Burgh, Surveyor General of Ireland