1824 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1824 in Ireland.

Events

• 19 November – Edward Kernan appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, in succession to James Murphy, an office he will hold until 1844.
• Foundation of the Northern Banking Company.
• The Ordnance Survey of Ireland is established.^[1]
• The UK Weights and Measures Act^[2] legally abolishes use of the Irish mile for most official purposes.^[3]
• The Shelbourne Hotel is established on St Stephen's Green, Dublin, by Martin Burke.
• Northern Whig newspaper is founded in Belfast.^[4]
• Thomas Crofton Croker publishes his first study of Irish folklore, Researches in the South of Ireland.

Births

• 23 April – William Nash, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Lucknow, India (died 1875).
• 28 May – Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association (died 1902).
• 26 June – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (died 1907).
• August – Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1864).
• 1 December – Thomas Henry Fitzgerald, farmer and politician in Queensland, Australia (died 1888).
• 12 December – William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP (died 1909).

Full date unknown

• John Coghlan, public works engineer in Argentina (died 1890).

• Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (died 1889).

• John O'Hart, genealogist (died 1902).

• Charles Irwin, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (died 1873).

• John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War (died 1867).

• Edward Whelan, politician, one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation (died 1867).

Deaths

• 21 January – Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor of various British territories in West Africa (born 1764).
• 17 April – William Ashford, landscape painter (born 1746 in England).
• 16 June – Walter Thom, journalist (born 1770 in Scotland).
• 24 August – Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (born 1752).
• 30 October – Charles Maturin, clergyman, novelist and playwright (born 1782).
• 9 November – Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley, politician (born 1745).
• 19 November – Bishop James Murphy, Bishop of Clogher 1801–1824 (born 1744).
• 5 December – Thomas McCord, businessman and politician in Lower Canada (born 1750).

See also

• 1824 in Scotland
• 1824 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Smith. Angèle. 1998. Landscapes of Power in Nineteenth Century Ireland: Archaeology and Ordnance Survey Maps. Archaeological Dialogues. Cambridge University Press. 5. 69–84. 10.1017/S1380203800001173. 5.
2. 5 Geo. 4. c. 74. Book: Great Britain. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1807–1865). 2011-12-31. 1824. His Majesty's Statute and Law Printers. 339–354.
3. Austin Bourke, P. M.. March 1965. Notes on Some Agricultural Units of Measurement in Use in Pre-Famine Ireland. Irish Historical Studies. 14. 55. 30005524. 236–245.
4. Web site: Northern Whig. National Library of Ireland. 2021-12-18.