1770 in Ireland

Events from the year 1770 in Ireland.

Events

Births

• 30 November - Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney, soldier, politician and peer (d.1832).

Full date unknown

• William Reid Clanny, physician and inventor of the Clanny safety lamp for miners (d.1850).
• James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (d.1816).

Deaths

• 12 January - James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown, politician (b.1700).
• 12 September - William Annesley, 1st Viscount Glerawly, politician (b.1710).

Full date unknown

• Francis Lucas, naval officer and merchant trader (b. c1741).