1725 in Ireland

Events from the year 1725 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: George I

Events

 * June 24 – first recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.
 * Irish Presbyterian ministers who refuse to subscribe at ordination to the Westminster Confession form the Presbytery of Antrim.

Births

 * May 15 – James Fortescue, politician (d. 1782)
 * September 27 – Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician (d. 1779)
 * September 28 (possible date) – Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family (d. 1803)
 * December 20 – John Parr, Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1791)
 * Robert Hellen, English-born lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
 * Alexander McNutt, British Army officer and coloniser of Nova Scotia (d. 1811)

Deaths

 * March 31 – Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, Chancellor of the Exchequer of England and Lord Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1669)
 * April 16 – James Barry, politician (b. 1661)
 * December 26 – Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison, heiress (b. 1660)
 * James Terry, Jacobite officer of arms.