1824 in Ireland
Events from the year 1824 in Ireland.
Events
- 19 November – Edward Kernan appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, in succession to James Murphy, an office he will hold until 1844.
- Foundation of the Northern Banking Company.
- The Ordnance Survey of Ireland is established.
- The UK Weights and Measures Act legally abolishes use of the Irish mile for most official purposes.
- The Shelbourne Hotel is established on St Stephen's Green, Dublin, by Martin Burke.
- Northern Whig newspaper is founded in Belfast.
- Thomas Crofton Croker publishes his first study of Irish folklore, Researches in the South of Ireland.
Births
- 23 April – William Nash, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Lucknow, India.
- 28 May – Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
- 26 June – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences.
- August – Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India.
- 1 December – Thomas Henry Fitzgerald, farmer and politician in Queensland, Australia.
- 12 December – William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP.
- ;Full date unknown
- :*John Coghlan, public works engineer in Argentina.
- :*Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India.
- :*John O'Hart, genealogist.
- :*Charles Irwin, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India.
- :*John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War.
- :*Edward Whelan, politician, one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation.
Deaths
- 21 January – Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor of various British territories in West Africa.
- 17 April – William Ashford, landscape painter.
- 16 June – Walter Thom, journalist.
- 24 August – Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer.
- 30 October – Charles Maturin, clergyman, novelist and playwright.
- 9 November – Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley, politician.
- 19 November – Bishop James Murphy, Bishop of Clogher 1801–1824.
- 5 December – Thomas McCord, businessman and politician in Lower Canada.