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Events

January–February - The 'Great Frost' continues: unusually harsh winter^[1] followed by a Spring drought.
April - Citizens of Drogheda prevent food being exported from their town to Scotland.^[2]
May 31–June 2 - Bread riots in Dublin.^[3]
June–December - Exceptionally cold weather, leading to the Great Irish Famine (1740-1741).^[3]
First steam engine installed in Ireland, for pumping at Doonane Colliery, Shrule.^[3]
A Dublin–Belfast stage coach service runs.^[4]
Conolly's Folly in the grounds of Castletown House, County Kildare, commissioned by Katherine Conolly from architect Richard Cassels, is erected to provide employment for hundreds of the poor of Celbridge during the Famine.
The original Ballymena Castle burns down.

↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 215–216. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Dickson, David (1997). Arctic Ireland. Belfast: White Row Press. ISBN 1870132858.
1 2 3 Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
↑ Connolly, Sean (2008). Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800. Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-19-954347-2.

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