1715 in Ireland

Events

• County Palatine of Tipperary Act, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, enables purchase by the crown of rights and revenues in County Tipperary held by the Dukes of Ormonde.
• George Evans is created 1st Baron Carbery in the Peerage of Ireland.

  Arts and literature

• First record of the actress and writer Eliza Haywood, performing in Thomas Shadwell's Shakespeare adaptation, Timon of Athens; or, The Man-Hater at the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

  Births

• Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, pioneer and army officer in colonial New York.
• Patrick Lynch, emigrant to Rio de la Plata and landowner.
• Tadhg Gaelach Ó Súilleabháin, poet.

  Deaths

• December 14 – Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick, member of Irish Parliament, Royalist military officer during the English Civil War and governor of the Province of New York