1840 in Ireland
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See also: 1839 in Ireland, 1841 in Ireland
[edit] Events
- The Palm House in Belfast Botanic Gardens is completed. It is one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear cast iron glasshouse in the world.
[edit] Births
- 4 January - Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894-1909 (d.1909).
- 17 November - Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, eighteenth Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin (d.(1908).
[edit] Deaths
- 20 August - George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh, politician (b.1778).
