1747 in Ireland

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s;
See also:	Other events of 1747 ; List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1747 in Ireland.

Events

19 January - "Kelly riots" at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin when Thomas Sheridan, the proprietor, is in dispute with some gentlemen.^[1]
28 February - George Stone, Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry, is elevated to Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (letters patent 13 March), an office he will hold until 1764.^[1]
21 April - Edmund Burke sets up Burke's Club, a debating society at Trinity College, Dublin, which will become the College Historical Society.^[1]
9–14 August - John Wesley pays his first visit to Ireland.^[1]
14 August - Death of Thaddeus McCarthy, last Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and Cloyne. The see is separated into the bishopric of Cork and the bishopric of Cloyne and Ross.
9 September–20 March 1748 - Charles Wesley pays his first visit to Ireland.^[1]
11 September - Daniel O'Reilly is appointed to succeed Ross MacMahon as Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, an office he will hold until 1778.

8 April - William Hales, clergyman and scientific writer (died 1831).
Denis Daly, landowner, MP and Mayor of Galway (died 1792).
John Dunlap, printer of the United States Declaration of Independence (died 1812).
Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighton (1787 - 1814), established Carlow College (1793), founder of the Brigidine Sisters (1807) and the Patrician Brothers (1808).

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.