1715 in Ireland

Events from the year 1715 in Ireland.

← 1714 1713 1712 1711 1710 1715 in Ireland → 1716 1717 1718 1719 1720
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
See also:	Other events of 1715 List of years in Ireland

Incumbent

• Monarch: George I

Events

• County Palatine of Tipperary Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, enables purchase by the crown of rights and revenues in County Tipperary held by the Dukes of Ormonde.
• George Evans is created 1st Baron Carbery in the Peerage of Ireland.

Arts and literature

• First record of the actress and writer Eliza Haywood, performing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

Births

• Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, pioneer and army officer in colonial New York (d. 1774).
• Patrick Lynch, emigrant to Rio de la Plata and landowner.
• Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, poet (d. 1795).

Deaths

• December 14 – Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War and governor of the Province of New York (b. 1634)