1816 in Ireland

Events

• The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819.
• January – Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.
• 30 January – wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville off the coast of Ireland in a gale with the loss of over 500 persons.
• 17 March – Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.
• May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.
• 18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.
• June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.
• 29-30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.
• Templemore Market House is built in County Tipperary.

  Births

• 6 February – John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto.
• 1 March – Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton.
• 14 March – Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia.
• 8 April – Frederick William Burton, painter.
• 12 April – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician.
• 31 July – Trevor Chute, British Army officer.
• 17 September – John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada.
• 30 October – Richard Quain, physician.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there.
• :*John O'Mahony, a founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood.

  Deaths

• 24 April – James Orr, rhyming weaver poet.
• 3 May – James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War.
• 7 July – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist.