title: 1730 in Ireland
text: # 1730 in Ireland
  
  Events from the year 1730 in Ireland.
  
  ## Incumbent
  
  * Monarch: George II
  
  ## Events
  
  * First bridge across the River Foyle linking Lifford and Strabane is built.
  * First turnpike act for Ireland, for improvement of the road from Dublin to Kilcullen Bridge.
  * Edward Lovett Pearce succeeds Thomas Burgh as Surveyor General of Ireland.
  
  ## Births
  
  * James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon, merchant, landlord and politician (d. 1802)
  * Approximate date
     * Thomas Barton, missionary clergyman (d. 1780)
     * Theophilus Blakeney, politician (d. 1813)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 29 – Thomas Flynn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh
  * August 6 – Sir Thomas Vesey, 1st Baronet, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory (b. 1668?)
  * October 3 – Thomas Brodrick, politician (b. 1654)
  * December 4 – Edward Southwell, politician (b. 1671)
  * December 18 – Colonel Thomas Burgh, Surveyor General of Ireland (b. 1670)
  