1815 in Ireland

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February 2 - Daniel O'Connell fatally wounds Norcotte D'Esterre in a duel after being challenged by D'Esterre.
March 28 – laying of the foundation stone of the Metropolitan Chapel (later known as the Catholic Pro-Cathedral), Marlborough Street, Dublin.
March – poet William Drennan's Fugitive pieces in verse and prose published in Belfast.
June 4 – lighthouse on Tuskar Rock first illuminated.
July 6 – Charles Bianconi runs his first car (i.e. horse-drawn carriage) for conveyance of passengers, from Clonmel to Cahir.
The river paddle steamer City of Cork is launched at Passage West, the first steamboat built in Ireland.^[1]
The Religious Sisters of Charity are founded by Mary Aikenhead in Dublin.
The Dublin Society purchases Leinster House, home of the Duke of Leinster, and founds a natural history museum there.^[2]
Tenter House erected in Cork Street, Dublin, financed by Thomas Pleasants.^[2]
St. Brendan's Hospital officially opened as the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, a national institution.

March – William Wilde, surgeon, author and father of Oscar Wilde (died 1876).
11 June – Hans Crocker, lawyer and Wisconsin politician (died 1889).
24 July – Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (died 1893).
24 July – John Thomas Ball, lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1875–1881 (died 1898).
August – Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy, politician (died 1874).
3 November – John Mitchel, nationalist activist, solicitor and journalist (died 1875).
31 December – Chartres Brew, Gold commissioner, Chief Constable and judge in the Colony of British Columbia (died 1870).
Full date unknown – Alfred Elmore, painter (died 1881).

Kennedy, John (1903). The History of Steam Navigation. Liverpool: Birchall. p. 13.
M'Gregor, John James (1821). New Picture of Dublin. Dublin: C.P. Archer.