1748 in Ireland

Events from the year 1748 in Ireland.

Incumbent

 * Monarch: George II

Events

 * Leinster House (at this time called Kildare House) in the unfashionable south side of Dublin is completed as a residence for James FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare by Richard Cassels.
 * 9 April: the Newtown Act, allowing non-resident burgesses in parliamentary boroughs, is given royal assent.

Births

 * 22 May – Thomas Roberts, landscape painter (died 1778).
 * Denis Daly, landowner, MP and Mayor of Galway (died 1791).
 * Alexander Macomb, senior, merchant and land speculator with Macomb's Purchase in New York (died 1831 in the United States).
 * John Ramage, miniature painter (died 1802).
 * Approximate date – Henry Conwell, Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia (died 1842).

Deaths

 * May – Walter Blake, politician.
 * 16 August – Sir James Somerville, 1st Baronet, politician.
 * 29 October – Ross Roe MacMahon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, later Archbishop of Armagh (born 1698).