1835 in Ireland

Events

• August 5 – Wellesley Bridge opened across the River Shannon in Limerick.
• August 28 – St. Vincent's Ecclesiastical Seminary, a predecessor of Castleknock College, is founded by the Vincentian community in Castleknock.
• September – Eagle Island lighthouses become operational.
• Drenagh House in Limavady, County Londonderry, is completed for the McCausland family. It is architect Charles Lanyon's first major commission.
• Quaker entrepreneur Charles Bewley lands an unprecedented cargo of 2,000 chests of tea shipped directly from China to Dublin, thereby breaking the East India Company's monopoly in the commodity.
• The Herdman brothers begin flax spinning at Sion Mills in County Tyrone.
• The Grand Hotel at Malahide opens for business and has been in continuous use as a hotel ever since.
• The remains of Jonathan Swift are uncovered during work on St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and inspected by William Wilde, an apprentice surgeon at this time.

Births

• 20 February – Robert Hart, British diplomat and official in the Imperial Chinese government.
• 9 April – Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore, soldier, politician and Lord Lieutenant for County Tyrone.
• 3 June – Eliza Lynch, First Lady of Paraguay.
• 1 July – Samuel McCaughey, pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia.
• 4 September – Abraham Boulger, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India.
• 18 September – Thomas Grady, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, the Crimea.
• November – Matthew Gibney, priest, in 1880 in Australia, tended the seemingly seriously wounded Ned Kelly, heard his confession and gave him the last rites.
• ;Full date unknown
• :*Richard Mayne, British admiral, explorer and MP.

  Deaths

• 15 September – Alexander McDonnell, chess master.
• 25 December – Antoine Ó Raifteiri, Irish language poet, "last of the wandering bards".