1748 in Ireland
Events from the year 1748 in Ireland.Events
- Leinster House in the unfashionable south side of Dublin is completed as a residence for James FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare by Richard Cassels.
- 9 April: the Newtown Act, allowing non-resident burgesses in parliamentary boroughs, is given royal assent.
Births
- 22 May – Thomas Roberts, landscape painter.
- Alexander Macomb, senior, merchant and land speculator with Macomb's Purchase in New York.
- John Ramage, miniature painter.
- Approximate date – Henry Conwell, Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia.
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.
