1795 in Ireland
Events from the year 1795 in Ireland .
Incumbent
Events
5 June – the Royal College of St Patrick established at Maynooth by Act of Grattan's Parliament to provide university-level education for Roman Catholic ecclesiastical and lay students.
15 September – a group of workers felling timber on the estate of Lord Carysfort in County Wicklow discover gold, leading to the Wicklow gold rush .[ 1] [ 2]
21 September
William Pitt , Prime Minister of Great Britain , replaces the popular and liberal Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , Lord Fitzwilliam , with Earl Camden ,[ 5] an opponent of Catholic Emancipation whose arrival in Dublin is greeted with riots.
Society of the United Irishmen members including Theobald Wolfe Tone and Henry Joy McCracken meet at Cavehill to the north of Belfast .
The town of Louisburgh, County Mayo , is established by Lord Altamount of Westport to house Catholic refugees fleeing sectarian conflict in the north of Ireland.
The first Wexford bridge across the River Slaney in the town of Wexford , built by the American Lemuel Cox in wood, is completed.[ 6]
National Botanic Gardens opened by the Royal Dublin Society .
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References
Sources
McArdle, Peadar (2011). Gold Frenzy: The Story of Wicklow's Gold . Swinford : Albertine Kennedy Publishing. ISBN 0-906002-08-7 .