- 1835 in Ireland
Events
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Drenagh House inLimavady ,County Londonderry is completed for the McCausland family. It is architectCharles Lanyon 's first major commission.
*The Grand Hotel, Malahide opens for business and has been in continuous use as a hotel ever since.Births
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9 April -Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore , soldier, politician and Lord Lieutenant forCounty Tyrone (d.1913).
*1 July -Samuel McCaughey ,pastoralist ,politician andphilanthropist inAustralia (d.1919).
*4 September -Abraham Boulger , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atLucknow ,India (d.1900).
*18 September -Thomas Grady , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1854 at Sebastopol, theCrimea (d.1891).
*November -Matthew Gibney , priest, in 1880 inAustralia , tended the seemingly seriously woundedNed Kelly , heard his confession and gave him the last rites (d.1925).Full date unknown
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Richard Charles Mayne , British admiral, explorer and MP (d.1892).Deaths
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Alexander McDonnell , chess master (b.1798).
*Antoine Ó Raifteiri ,Irish language poet (b.1784).
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