1824 in Ireland

Events

• 19 November – Edward Kernan appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, in succession to James Murphy, an office he will hold until 1844.
• Foundation of the Northern Banking Company.
• The Ordnance Survey of Ireland is established.
• The U.K. Weights and Measures Act legally abolishes use of the Irish mile for most official purposes.
• The Shelbourne Hotel is established on St Stephen's Green, Dublin, by Martin Burke.
• Thomas Crofton Croker publishes his first study of Irish folklore, Researches in the South of Ireland.

  Births

• 23 April – William Nash, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Lucknow, India.
• 28 May – Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
• 26 June – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences.
• August – Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India.
• 1 December – Thomas Henry Fitzgerald, farmer and politician in Queensland, Australia.
• 12 December – William Joseph Corbet, nationalist politician and MP.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*John Coghlan, public works engineer in Argentina.
• :*Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India.
• :*John O'Hart, genealogist.
• :*Charles Irwin, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India.
• :*John Lyons, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War.
• :*Edward Whelan, politician, one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation.

  Deaths

• 21 January – Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor of various British territories in West Africa.
• 17 April – William Ashford, landscape painter.
• 16 June – Walter Thom, journalist.
• 24 August – Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer.
• 30 October – Charles Maturin, clergyman, novelist and playwright.
• 9 November – Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley, politician.
• 19 November – Bishop James Murphy, Bishop of Clogher 1801–1824.
• 5 December – Thomas McCord, businessman and politician in Lower Canada.