1721 in Ireland
# 1721 in Ireland

Events from the year 1721 in Ireland.

## Incumbent

* Monarch: George I

## Events

* June 24 – an act of the Parliament of Great Britain permits Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, to purchase the Irish estates forfeited by his brother James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde.
* The office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland is the highest political office in the Parliament of Ireland; Viscount Midleton being the incumbent.
* The title Baron Bessborough, of Bessborough, Piltown in the County of Kilkenny, is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of William Ponsonby.

## Births

* Henry Jones, poet and tragedian (d. 1770)
* Denis Maguire, Bishop (Catholic Church) (d. 1798)
* Robert Murray, merchant (d. 1786)
* Peter Parker, Admiral of the Fleet (d. 1811)
* John Ruxton, landowner and politician (d. 1785)
* Approximate date
   * Richard Houston, mezzotint engraver (d. 1775)
   * Alexander Montgomery, soldier and politician (d. 1785)

## Deaths

* July 21 (hanged) – Walter Kennedy, pirate (b. c.1695)
* September 20 – Thomas Doggett, actor and benefactor (b. c.1670)
* Autumn – Godfrey Boate, judge (b. 1673)
* Denis Daly, judge (b. c.1638)
* Sir John Kirwan, merchant (b. 1650)
