1786 in Ireland

Events

• The last reliably recorded wolf in Ireland is hunted down and killed near Mount Leinster, County Carlow, for killing sheep.^[1]

Births

• 1 April - William Mulready, painter (d.1863).
• 7 May - John Cliffe Watts, military officer, architect in Australia (d.1873).
• 23 September - John England, first Catholic Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina (d.1842).

Full date unknown

• Eaton Stannard Barrett, poet and author (d.1820).

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