1715 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George I

Events

• Act 1715|County Palatine of Tipperary Act], an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, enables purchase by the crown of rights and revenues in County Tipperary held by the Dukes of Ormonde.
• George Evans, [1st Baron Carbery|George Evans] is created 1st Baron Carbery in the Peerage of Ireland.

Arts and literature

• First record of the actress and writer Eliza Haywood, performing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

Births

• Sir [William Johnson, 1st Baronet], pioneer and army officer in colonial New York.
• Patrick Lynch, emigrant to Rio de la Plata and landowner.
• Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, poet.

Deaths

• December 14 – Thomas [Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick], member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War and governor of the Province of New York