31 May – first stone of new pier at the port ofDunleary is laid.[2]
16 June – Poor Law Employment Act empowers theLord Lieutenant to appoint commissioners of public works to supervise construction of public works to relieve unemployment financed bymortgages ofrates.[2]
11 July – an act to provide for the establishment ofasylums for thelunatic poor in Ireland.[2]
c. July – tradesman Jeffery Sedwards establishes theSkibbereen Abstinence Society, considered the first organisation devoted toteetotalism in Europe.[2]
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^abcdefghiMoody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989).A New History of Ireland.8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. p. 302.ISBN978-0-19-821744-2.
