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See also:	1815 in the United Kingdom Other events of 1815 List of years in Ireland

Events from the year1815 in Ireland.

• 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 CatholicPro-Cathedral), Marlborough Street,Dublin.
• March – poetWilliam Drennan'sFugitive pieces in verse and prose published inBelfast.
• June 4 – lighthouse onTuskar Rock first illuminated.
• July 6 –Charles Bianconi runs his first car (i.e. horse-drawncarriage) for conveyance of passengers, fromClonmel toCahir.
• The riverpaddle steamerCity of Cork is launched atPassage West, the firststeamboat built in Ireland.^[1]
• TheReligious Sisters of Charity are founded byMary Aikenhead inDublin.
• TheDublin Society purchasesLeinster House, home of theDuke of Leinster, and founds a natural history museum there.^[2]
• Tenter House erected inCork Street, Dublin, financed byThomas Pleasants.^[2]
• St. Brendan's Hospital officially opened as theRichmond Lunatic Asylum, a national institution.

• March –William Wilde, surgeon, author and father ofOscar Wilde (died1876).
• 11 June –Hans Crocker, lawyer andWisconsin politician (died1889).
• 24 July –Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie, geographer (died1893).
• 24 July –John Thomas Ball, lawyer, politician andLord Chancellor of Ireland, 1875–1881 (died1898).
• August –Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy, politician (died1874).
• 3 November –John Mitchel, nationalist activist, solicitor and journalist (died1875).
• 31 December –Chartres Brew,Gold commissioner,Chief Constable andjudge in theColony of British Columbia (died1870).
• Full date unknown –Alfred Elmore, painter (died1881).

• 31 December –Thomas Burke, artist (born1749).
• Ellen Hutchins, botanist (born1785).

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