1816 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s;
See also:	1816 in the United Kingdom; Other events of 1816 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1816 in Ireland.

Events

The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819.^[1]
January – Belfast Savings Bank opens for business.^[2]
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.^[3]
17 March – Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.^[4]
May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey.^[5]
18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded.^[6]
June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the United Church of England and Ireland.^[7]
29–30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in County Louth.^[8]
Templemore Town Hall is built in County Tipperary.^[9]

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).

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).

^ Hugh, Fenning (1999). Typhus Epidemic in Ireland, 1817–1819: Priests, Ministers, Doctors. Collectanea Hibernica. pp. 117–152. ISBN 0-385-40818-8.
^ Pilson, James Adair (1846). History of the Rise and Progress of Belfast: And Annals of the County Antrim. Belfast: John Mullen.
^ Farrell, Daniel (30 January 2020). "Remembering the Sea Horse lost off Tramore | 30th January 1816". Coast Monkey. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
^ O'Donovan Rossa Bridge at Structurae
^ Carty, Ed (19 May 2016). "Dublin's Ha'penny Bridge celebrates 200th birthday". The Irish News. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
^ O'Day, Alan; Fleming, Neil (2005). Longman Handbook of Modern Irish History Since 1800. NY: USA: Routledge. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-582-08102-4.
^ "History". The Parish Church of St George, Belfast. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
^ Dooley, Terence (2007). The Murders at Wildgoose Lodge. Four Courts Press. ISBN 978-1-84682-085-4.
^ "Templemore Town Hall, Main Street, Main Street, KILTILLANE, Templemore, Tipperary North". Buildings of Ireland. Retrieved 6 July 2020.