1739 in Ireland

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1739
in
Ireland

Decades:	1710s • 1720s • 1730s • 1740s • 1750s
Centuries:	16th • 17th • 18th • 19th • 20th
See also:	Other events of 1739 List of years in Ireland

Events

27 April - The trial of Henry Barry, 4th Baron Barry of Santry, before the Irish House of Lords for the drunken murder of a tavern servant in Palmerstown the previous summer opens; he is convicted but later pardoned.
July–August - Wet summer, affecting the harvest and the cutting of turf.^[1]
26 September - "Address of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" to George II of Great Britain requesting longer leases.^[1]
6 October - The title Earl of Bessborough is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, chief commissioner of revenue.^[1]
27 December–February 1740 - The 'Great Frost': unusually harsh winter.^[2]

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

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Moody, T. W. et al., ed. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

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