1758 in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

Events

• Summer – work begins on construction of what will become the Grand Canal near Dublin.
• 27 October – the ship Dublin Trader (Captain White) leaves Parkgate, Cheshire, for Dublin, and founders in the Irish Sea; she carries 70,000 Irish pounds in money and £80,000 in goods, while among the 60 passengers lost are Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda, Theophilus Cibber (the English actor, bound for a season at the Smock Alley Theatre), and (probably) the mezzotint engraver Michael Ford.
• The agriculturalist Richard Geoghegan reclaims a large tract of land from the sea at Ballyconneely in County Galway.
• Mineral spring discovered at Lucan, Dublin.

Births

• 26 March – Samuel Greg, entrepreneur and pioneer of the factory system at Quarry Bank Mill (died 1834).
• December – Mary Leadbeater, writer (died 1826).
• Hans Blackwood, 3rd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, politician (died 1839).
• Approximate date – Charles "Hindoo" Stuart, East India Company officer (died 1828 in India).

Deaths

• October – Michael Ford, mezzotint engraver.

References

References

1. Delany, Ruth. (1988). "A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways". Appletree Press.
2. Salmon, Eric. (2004). "Cibber, Theophilus (1703–1758)". Oxford University Press.