1799 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1799 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- 24 January â A motion to debate an Act of Union is defeated in the Irish House of Commons, though it is later approved in the House of Lords
- 9 February â In the worst ever loss-of-life incident on Irish inland waterways (as of 2026), around 91 people die when a barge crashes against a cutwater at Carrick Bridge and capsizes in Carrick-on-Suir.[1][2]
- 15 February â the rebel guerilla leader Michael Dwyer escapes from a gun battle with British troops at Miley Connell's cottage, Dernamuck, in the Glen of Imaal, County Wicklow. (today called the DwyerâMcAllister Cottage)[3]
- River Shannon made navigable from Limerick to Killaloe.[4]
Births
- 28 February â William Dargan, engineer and railway builder (died 1867).
- 9 August â Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, politician and peer (died 1868).
- 12 August â Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (died 1870).
- 22 December â Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist (died 1864).
- 26 December â William Kennedy, Scottish poet, journalist and diplomat (died 1871 in France).
- Full date unknown
- Henry Archer, barrister and entrepreneur in north Wales (died 1863 in France).
- Joseph M. Hawkins, Alamo defender (died 1836 in the United States).
Deaths
- 11 January â Thomas Bermingham, 1st Earl of Louth (born 1717)
- 27 February â Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, politician (born 1722).
- 29 March â Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan, High Sheriff of Mayo in 1756 (born 1735)
- 4 June â Philip Woodroffe, surgeon
- 4 August â James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, politician, first President of the Royal Irish Academy, president of the volunteer convention in Dublin, 1783 (born 1728).
- 6 December â John Moore, participant in Irish Rebellion of 1798, proclaimed President of the Government of the Province of Connaught (born 1767).
- 11 December â "Brave" Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine, soldier in France (born 1751; died in France).