1806 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

[edit] Births

• 25 July - John O'Donovan, scholar and first historic topographer (d.1861).
• 1 August - Edward Crofton, 2nd Baron Crofton, Conservative politician (d.1869).
• 17 August - Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (d.1896).
• 20 August - Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford, Member of Parliament for Armagh (d.1864).
• 31 August - Charles Lever, novelist (d.1872).
• 15 October - William Clements, 3rd Earl of Leitrim, nobleman and landowner (d.1878).
• 3 November - Robert Molesworth, judge in Australia (d.1890).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Henry Archer, barrister (d.1863).
• Simon Byrne, prize-fighter (d.1833).
• John T. Graves, mathematician (d.1870).
• Patrick Leahy, bishop (d.1875).
• Daniel Maclise, painter (d.1870).

[edit] Deaths

• 22 February - James Barry, painter (b.1741).
• 31 May - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat (b.1737).
• 9 September - William Paterson, jurist in the United States (b.1745).
• 18 September - Patrick Cotter O'Brien, known as the Bristol Giant and the Irish Giant (b.1760).