1739 in Ireland

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See also:	Other events of 1739 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1739 in Ireland.

Incumbent

• Monarch: George II

• 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]
• 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 (d. 1821
  )
• James Gordon, merchant, soldier, and politician in America (d. 1810
  )

• surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (d. 1826
  )
• Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (d. 1777)
• Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d. 1801
  )

• Charles Jervas, painter, translator and art collector (b. c.1675)

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