1715 in Ireland

Events from the year 1715 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)