31 May – first stone of new pier at the port of
Dunleary is laid.[2]
16 June – Poor Law Employment Act empowers the
Lord Lieutenant to appoint commissioners of public works to supervise construction of public works to relieve unemployment financed by
mortgages of
rates.[2]
11 July – an act to provide for the establishment of
asylums for the
lunatic poor in Ireland.[2]
c. July – tradesman Jeffery Sedwards establishes the
Skibbereen Abstinence Society, considered the first organisation devoted to
teetotalism in Europe.[2]
^Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 103.
ISBN0-86281-200-3.
^
abcdefghiMoody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. p. 302.
ISBN978-0-19-821744-2.
31 May – first stone of new pier at the port of
Dunleary is laid.[2]
16 June – Poor Law Employment Act empowers the
Lord Lieutenant to appoint commissioners of public works to supervise construction of public works to relieve unemployment financed by
mortgages of
rates.[2]
11 July – an act to provide for the establishment of
asylums for the
lunatic poor in Ireland.[2]
c. July – tradesman Jeffery Sedwards establishes the
Skibbereen Abstinence Society, considered the first organisation devoted to
teetotalism in Europe.[2]
^Delany, Ruth (1988). A celebration of 250 years of Ireland's Inland Waterways. Belfast: Appletree Press. p. 103.
ISBN0-86281-200-3.
^
abcdefghiMoody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. p. 302.
ISBN978-0-19-821744-2.