1774 in Ireland

Events from the year 1774 in Ireland.

Incumbent

Monarch: George III

Events

17 September – Clifton House, Belfast, the Belfast Charitable Society's poorhouse, is opened.
New buildings in Armagh provided by Archbishop Richard Robinson are completed for the County Infirmary, Royal School and Military Barracks.

Births

7 May – Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale.
11 July – Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman.
29 December – Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, Whig politician.
;Full date unknown
:*Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire, poet.
:*Bartholomew Teeling, a leader of the Irish forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Deaths

4 April – Oliver Goldsmith, novelist and playwright.
11 July – Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, pioneer and army officer in colonial New York.
14 July – Field Marshal James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, officer in the British Army.
27 December – Henry Mossop, actor.
Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet.