1739 in Ireland

Births

• 27 September - Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician (d.1821).
• 31 October - James Gordon, merchant, soldier, and politician in America (d.1810).

Full date unknown

• Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (d.1826).
• Christopher Hewetson, sculptor (d.1799).
• Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (d.1777).
• Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d.1801).

Deaths

• Charles Jervas, painter, translator and art collector (b. c1675).