1816 in Ireland

Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.

Events

 * The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819.
 * January – Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.
 * 30 January – wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville (military transport ships) off Tramore in a gale with the loss of over 500 persons.
 * 17 March – Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.
 * May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.
 * 18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.
 * June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.
 * 29–30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.
 * Templemore Town Hall is built in County Tipperary.

Births

 * 6 February – John Joseph Lynch, Bishop of Toronto (died 1888).
 * 1 March – Charles Magill, member of the 1st Canadian Parliament and mayor of Hamilton (died 1898).
 * 14 March – Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, government official in Western Australia (died 1897).
 * 8 April – Frederick William Burton, painter (died 1900).
 * 12 April – Charles Gavan Duffy, nationalist and Australian colonial politician (died 1903).
 * 31 July – Trevor Chute, British Army officer (died 1886).
 * 17 September – John Hawkins Hagarty, lawyer, teacher and judge in Canada (died 1900).
 * 30 October – Richard Quain, physician (died 1898).
 * Full date unknown
 * John Drummond, early settler and explorer in Western Australia, first Inspector of Native Police there (died 1906).
 * John O'Mahony, a founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood (died 1877).

Deaths

 * 24 April – James Orr, rhyming weaver poet (born 1770).
 * 3 May – James McHenry, signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, third United States Secretary of War (born 1753).
 * 7 July – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and statesman (born 1751).
 * Full date unknown
 * Robert Fagan, painter, diplomat and archaeologist (b. c1761).