1730 in Ireland

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Events

• First bridge across the River Foyle linking Lifford and Strabane is built.
• Edward Lovett Pearce succeeds Thomas Burgh as Surveyor General of Ireland.

Births

• 10 November - Oliver Goldsmith, writer, poet and physician (died 1774)
• James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon, merchant, landlord and politician (died 1802)
• Approximate date
  • Thomas Barton, missionary clergyman (died 1780)
  • Theophilus Blakeney, politician (died 1813)

Deaths

• 29 January - Thomas Flynn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh
• 6 August - Sir Thomas Vesey, 1st Baronet, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory (born 1668?)
• 3 October - Thomas Brodrick, politician (born 1654)
• 4 December - Edward Southwell, politician (born 1671)
• 18 December - Colonel Thomas Burgh, Surveyor General of Ireland (born 1670)