1716 in Ireland
Events from the year 1716 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- June 20 – acts of the Parliament of Ireland for:
- *Confiscating the estates of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde and vesting them in the Crown, and abolishing the county palatine of Tipperary.
- *Drainage and navigation of the River Shannon.
- The titles Viscount Molesworth and Baron Philipstown, of Swords in the County of Dublin, are created in the Peerage of Ireland for Robert Molesworth.
Arts and literature
- November 12 – Johann Sigismund Kusser is appointed "Master of the Music, attending His Majesties State in Ireland".
- Sarah Butler's Irish Tales is published in London.
Births
- November 1 – Tichborne Aston, politician
- William Fisher, politician in Nova Scotia
- Charles Tottenham, politician
- Approximate date
- *James Daly, politician
- *Richard Tyrell, naval officer
Deaths
- August 6 – Paul Davys, 1st Viscount Mount Cashell, nobleman
- October 17 – Henry Folliott, 3rd Baron Folliott, nobleman, landowner and politician.
- Patrick Donnelly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Dromore and poet
- Garret Morphey, painter
- 1716 or 1718 – Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, historian