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List of events
Events from the year 1758 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Events
- Summer – work begins on construction of what will become the
Grand Canal near Dublin.
[1]
- 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.
[2]
- The agriculturalist
Richard Geoghegan
reclaims a large tract of land from the sea at
Ballyconneely in
County Galway.
-
Mineral spring discovered at
Lucan, Dublin.
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