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| x Battle of Confey | 917 C.E. |
The Battle of Confey (or Cenn Fuait) was a battle fought in Ireland between Norse invaders and the King of Leinster Augaire mac Ailella. The battle was fought in 917 AD and led to the recapture of Dublin by the Norse dynasty that had been expelled...
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915 C.E. | Leixlip | |
| x Battle of Clontarf | Apr 23, 1014 |
The Battle of Clontarf (Irish: Cath Chluana Tarbh) took place on Good Friday in 1014 (23 April) between the forces of Brian Boru and the forces led by the King of Leinster, Máel Mórda mac Murchada: composed mainly of his own men, Viking mercenaries...
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Apr 23, 1014 | Clontarf, Dublin | |
| x Norman Invasion of Ireland |
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1171 |
The Norman invasion of Ireland (Irish: Ionradh Normannach na hÉireann) began on 1 May 1169 when a Norman military force landed near Bannow, County Wexford. This was at the behest of Dermot MacMurrough (Diarmait Mac Murchada), the ousted King of...
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May 1, 1169 | Ireland |
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| x Synod of Cashel |
At the Synod of Cashel in 1172 the Irish bishops agreed to the lordship of Henry II of England over Ireland, in line with the policy of the Catholic Church.
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1172 | Cashel, County Tipperary | ||
| x Irish Bruce Wars 1315-1318 | 1318 |
By the early 14th century, Ireland had not had a High King since Ruaidri mac Tairrdelbach Ua Conchobair who had been deposed by his son in 1186. Further, the Plantagenet dynasty had been assigned Ireland by Laudabiliter in 1155 and indirectly ruled...
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1315 | Ireland | |
| x Battle of Connor |
The Battle of Connor was fought during 1315 in what is now Connor, County Antrim. It was part of the Bruce campaign in Ireland. Edward Bruce and his Irish allies defeated the 2nd Earl of Ulster's forces following the defection of his allies; who...
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1315 | Connor | ||
| x Battle of Kells |
The Battle of Kells was a battle between Edward Bruce and Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. Mortimer was decisively beaten. The battle's outcome however, did not matter, for after, Bruce was defeated in the Battle of Faughart.
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Nov 1315 | Kells, County Meath | ||
| x Battle of Skerries | Jan 26, 1316 |
The Battle of Skerries, also named the Battle of Ardscull, was a battle in the Bruce campaign in Ireland – part of the First War of Scottish Independence – fought on 26 January 1316, resulting in a Scottish victory. It was part of the Irish campaign...
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Jan 26, 1316 | Ardclough | |
| x Second Battle of Athenry | Aug 10, 1316 |
The Second Battle of Athenry took place at Athenry (Irish: Áth-na-Rí) in Ireland on 10 August 1316 during the Bruce campaign in Ireland.
The collective number of both armies are unknown, and can only be estimated; while it is doubtful that the...
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Aug 10, 1316 | Athenry | |
| x Battle of Dysert O'Dea | May 10, 1318 |
The Battle of Dysert O'Dea took place at Dysert O'Dea near Corofin, Co. Clare, Ireland, on May 10, 1318 during the Irish Bruce Wars 1315-1318. The Norman Richard de Clare attacked the Irish chieftain Conor O'Dea, chief of the Cineal Fearmaic and...
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May 10, 1318 | O'Dea Castle | |
| x Battle of Stanhope Park |
The Battle of Stanhope Park was fought in northern England in August 1327 and forms part of the Wars of Scottish Independence. It was the centrepiece of the Weardale campaign, the first taste of war for the recently crowned Edward III of England. It...
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Aug 1327 | County Durham | ||
| x Poyning's Law |
Poynings' Law (10 Hen.7 c.22) is an Act of the Parliament of Ireland. It was initiated by Sir Edward Poynings in the Irish Parliament at Drogheda in 1494. In his position as Viceroy to Ireland and Lord-Deputy, as appointed by King Henry VII of...
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1494 | Drogheda | ||
| x Dissolution of the Monasteries |
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1541 |
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, denotes the administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, nunneries and friaries in England, Wales...
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1536 | Wales |
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| x Battle of Farsetmore | May 8, 1567 |
The Battle of Farsetmore was fought near Letterkenny in Donegal, north-western Ireland, on the 8th May 1567, between the O’Neill and O’Donnell clans. Shane O'Neill, chief of the O’Neills of Tyrone, was defeated and the O’Donnells freed themselves...
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May 8, 1567 | Letterkenny | |
| x Second Desmond Rebellion |
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1583 |
The Second Desmond rebellion (1579 – 1583) was the more widespread and bloody of the two Desmond Rebellions launched by the FitzGerald dynasty of Desmond in Munster, southern Ireland, against English rule in Ireland. The second rebellion began in...
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1579 | Ireland |
| x Siege of Smerwick 1580 |
The Siege of Smerwick or Siege of Dún-an-Óir took place at Dún-an-Óir in 1580, during the Second Desmond Rebellion in Ireland. It ended with one of the most infamous massacres of the 16th century. Hence, it is sometimes called the Dún-an-Óir...
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1580 | Ard na Caithne | ||
| x Battle of Glenmalure | Nov 1580 |
The Battle of Glenmalure (Irish: Cath Ghleann Molúra) took place in Ireland in 1580 during the Desmond Rebellions. An Irish Catholic force made up of the Gaelic clans from the Wicklow Mountains led by Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne and James Eustace,...
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Nov 1580 | Glenmalure | |
| x Siege of Carrigafoyle Castle |
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Nov 1580 |
The Siege of Carrigafoyle Castle (Irish: Léigear Caisleán Charraig-an-Phoill) took place at Easter in 1580 near modern-day Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland on the southern shores of the River Shannon. The engagement was part of the English crown...
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Nov 1580 | Ballylongford |
| x Battle of Curlew Pass |
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Aug 15, 1599 |
The Battle of Curlew Pass was fought on the 15th of August 1599, during the campaign of the Earl of Essex in the Nine Years' War, between an English force under Sir Conyers Clifford and a rebel Irish force led by Hugh Roe Ó Donnell. The English were...
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Aug 15, 1599 | Boyle, County Roscommon |
| x Siege of Cahir Castle |
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Nov 1599 |
The Siege of Cahir Castle (Irish: Léigear Chaisleán-na-Cathrach) took place in Munster, in southern Ireland in 1599, during the campaign of the Earl of Essex against the rebels in the Nine Years War (1595-1603). Although the castle was considered...
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Nov 1599 | Cahir |
| x Siege of Kinsale |
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Jan 3, 1602 |
The Siege or Battle of Kinsale (Irish: Léigear/Cath Chionn tSáile) was the ultimate battle in England's conquest of Gaelic Ireland. It took place during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, at the climax of the Nine Years War - a rebellion of Hugh Ó...
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Oct 2, 1601 | Kinsale |
| x Flight of the Earls |
The Flight of the Earls (Irish: Teitheadh na nIarlaí) refers to the departure from Ireland on 14 September 1607 of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell.
After their defeat at the Battle of Kinsale in 1601, and...
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Sep 14, 1607 | Ireland | ||
| x Irish Confederate Wars |
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1653 |
This article is concerned with the military history of Ireland from 1641-53. For the political context of this conflict, see Confederate Ireland.
The Irish Confederate Wars, also called the Eleven Years War (derived from the Irish language name...
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1641 | Ireland |
| x Irish Rebellion of 1641 |
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1641) began as an attempted coup d'état by Irish Catholic gentry, but developed into inter communal violence between native Irish and English and Scottish Protestant settlers, starting a conflict known...
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Oct 1641 | Ireland | ||
| x Battle of Julianstown | Nov 1641 |
The Battle of Julianstown (Irish: Cath Bhaile Iúiliáin) was fought during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, at Julianstown near Drogheda in eastern Ireland, in November 1641.
The insurgents, led by Rory O'More moved south from Ulster towards Dublin,...
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Nov 1641 | Julianstown | |
| x Siege of Drogheda |
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Sep 11, 1649 |
Drogheda, a town in eastern Ireland, was besieged twice in the 1640s, during the Irish Confederate Wars and the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The first siege occurred during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, when Phelim O'Neill and the...
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Dec 1641 | Drogheda |
| x Battle of Kilrush | Apr 15, 1642 |
The Battle of Kilrush (Irish: Cath Chill Rois) was a minor engagement at the start of the Eleven years war. It was fought in April 1642 between an English army under the Earl of Ormonde, and Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret, who led an...
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Apr 15, 1642 | Kildare | |
| x Battle of Liscarroll | Jul 1642 |
The Battle of Liscarroll (Irish: Cath Lios Cearúill) was fought in County Cork in July 1642, at the start of the Eleven years war. An Irish Confederate army around 6000 strong and commanded by Garret Barry – a professional soldier - was defeated by...
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Jul 1642 | Liscarroll | |
| x Battle of New Ross | Mar 18, 1643 |
The Battle of Ballinvegga (Irish: Cath Bhaile-an-Bheigigh) or Battle of New Ross (Irish: Cath Ros-Mhic-Thriúin) was a battle of the Irish Confederate Wars fought on 18 March 1643.
In the battle, James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde defeated Thomas...
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Mar 18, 1643 | New Ross | |
| x Siege of Duncannon | Mar 18, 1645 |
The Siege of Duncannon (Irish: Léigear Dhún Canann) took place in 1645, during the Irish Confederate Wars. An Irish Catholic Confederate army under Thomas Preston besieged and successfully took the town of Duncannon in south eastern Ireland from its...
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Jan 20, 1645 | Duncannon | |
| x Battle of Benburb | Jun 1646 |
The Battle of Benburb (Irish: Cath na Binne Boirbe) took place in 1646 during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between the forces of Confederate Ireland under Owen Roe O'Neill and a...
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Jun 1646 | Benburb | |
| x Battle of Dungan's Hill | Aug 1647 |
The Battle of Dungan's Hill (Irish: Cath Chnoc Dhongan) took place in County Meath, in eastern Ireland in August 1647. It was fought between the armies of Confederate Ireland and the English Parliament during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The...
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Aug 1647 | Summerhill, County Meath | |
| x Sack of Cashel |
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Sep 1647 |
The Sack of Cashel (Irish: Sléacht Chaisil) was a notorious atrocity which occurred in the Irish County of Tipperary in the year 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The town of Cashel was held by the...
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Sep 1647 | Cashel |
| x Battle of Knocknanuss |
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Nov 1647 |
The Battle of Knocknanauss was fought in 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, between Confederate Ireland’s Munster army and an English Parliamentarian army under Murrough O’Brien. The battle resulted in a...
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Nov 1647 | Knocknanauss |
| x Cromwellian conquest of Ireland |
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Apr 1653 |
The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649-53) refers to the re-conquest of Ireland by the forces of the English Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Cromwell landed in Ireland with his New Model Army on behalf of...
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Aug 1649 | Ireland |
| x Battle of Rathmines |
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Aug 2, 1649 |
The Battle of Rathmines was fought in and around what is now the Dublin suburb of Rathmines in August 1649, during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between an English Parliamentarian army...
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Aug 2, 1649 | Rathmines |
| x Sack of Wexford | Oct 11, 1649 |
The Sack of Wexford (Irish: Sléacht Loch Garman) took place in October 1649, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, when the New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell took Wexford town in south-eastern Ireland. The English Parliamentarian troops...
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Oct 2, 1649 | Wexford | |
| x Siege of Waterford |
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Aug 1650 |
The city of Waterford in south eastern Ireland was besieged from 1649–50 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The town was held by Irish Confederate Catholic and English Royalist troops under general Thomas Preston. It was besieged by English...
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Nov 1649 | Waterford |
| x Battle of Arklow | Nov 1649 |
The Battle of Arklow took place on the coast road through Arklow in County Wicklow during November 1649. It was fought between the armies of Confederate Ireland (allied with the Royalists), and the English Parliamentarians during the Irish...
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Nov 1649 | Arklow | |
| x Battle of Lisnagarvey | Dec 6, 1649 |
The Battle of Lisnagarvey took place near Lisburn, 20 miles south of Carrickfergus, in south county Antrim, Ireland in December 1649. It was fought between the Royalists army (many of whom were Scots) and the Parliamentarians during the Wars of the...
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Dec 6, 1649 | Lisnargarvey | |
| x Siege of Clonmel | May 1650 |
The Siege of Clonmel took place in April – May 1650 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when the town of Clonmel in County Tipperary was besieged by Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army. Cromwell's 8,000 men eventually took the town from its 2...
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Apr 1650 | Clonmel | |
| x Battle of Macroom | May 10, 1650 |
The Battle of Macroom was fought in 1650, near Macroom, County Cork, in southern Ireland, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. An English Parliamentarian force under Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery defeated an Irish Confederate force under...
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May 10, 1650 | Macroom | |
| x Battle of Tecroghan | Jun 19, 1650 |
The Battle of Tecroghan took place near Trim, in west Leinster, Ireland in June 1650. It was fought between the armies of Confederate Ireland and the English Parliament during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. An English force under Hewson and...
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Jun 19, 1650 | Trim, County Meath | |
| x Battle of Scarrifholis | Jun 21, 1650 |
The Battle of Scarrifholis was fought in Donegal in north-western Ireland, on the 21st of June 1650, during the Irish Confederate Wars – part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between the Irish Catholic Ulster Army, commanded by Heber...
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Jun 21, 1650 | Donegal | |
| x Siege of Charlemont | Aug 1650 |
The Siege of Charlemont took place in July - August 1650 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when the fortress of Charlemont in County Armagh, Ireland was besieged by Charles Coote’s Parliamentarian army, which was largely composed of...
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Jul 1650 | Armagh | |
| x Battle of Meelick Island | Oct 25, 1650 |
The Battle of Meelick Island took place on the river Shannon, on the border between Connaught and Leinster, in Ireland in October 1650. It was fought between the armies of Confederate Ireland and the English Parliament during the Wars of the Three...
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Oct 25, 1650 | River Shannon | |
| x Siege of Limerick |
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Oct 1651 |
Limerick, in western Ireland was the scene of two sieges during the Irish Confederate Wars. The second and largest of these took place during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1650-51. Limerick was one the last fortified cities held by an...
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Jun 1651 | Limerick |
| x Battle of Knocknaclashy | Jul 1651 |
The battle of Knocknaclashy, took place in county Cork in southern Ireland in 1651. In it, an Irish Confederate force led by Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry was defeated by an English Parliamentarian force under Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery....
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Jul 1651 | Banteer | |
| x Siege of Galway |
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May 1652 |
The Siege of Galway took place from August 1651 to May 1652 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Galway was the last city held by Irish Catholic forces in Ireland and its fall signalled the end to most organised resistance to the...
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Aug 1651 | Galway |
| x Siege of Derry |
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The Siege of Derry (Irish: Léigear Dhoire) took place in Ireland from 18 April to 28 July 1689, during the Williamite War in Ireland. The city, a Williamite stronghold, was besieged by a Jacobite army until it was relieved by Royal Navy ships.
In...
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1689 | Derry | |
| x Williamite war in Ireland |
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Oct 3, 1691 |
The Williamite War in Ireland, also known as the Jacobite War in Ireland and in Ireland as Cogadh an Dá Rí or The War of the Two Kings, was a conflict between Catholic King James II and Protestant William of Orange over who would be King of England,...
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Mar 12, 1689 | Ireland |
| x Break of Dromore | Mar 14, 1689 |
The Break of Dromore is a name given to a battle fought during the Williamite War in Ireland on March 14, 1689. The battle was fought between Catholic Jacobite troops under Richard Hamilton and Protestant Williamites.
The engagement, fought near...
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Mar 14, 1689 | Dromore | |
| x Battle of Newtownbutler | Jul 31, 1689 |
The Battle of Newtownbutler took place near Enniskillen in County Fermanagh in northern Ireland in 1689 and was part of the Williamite War in Ireland.
In Enniskillen, armed Williamite civilians drawn from the local Protestant population organised a...
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Jul 31, 1689 | Enniskillen | |
| x Battle of the Boyne |
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The Battle of the Boyne (Irish: Cath na Bóinne) was fought in 1690 between two rival claimants of the English, Scottish and Irish thrones - the Catholic King James and the Protestant King William, who had deposed James in 1688. The battle, won by...
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1690 | Drogheda | |
| x Siege of Limerick |
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Sep 1690 |
Limerick, a city in western Ireland, was besieged twice in the Williamite War in Ireland, 1689-1691. On the first of these occasions, in August to September 1690, its Jacobite defenders retreated to the city after their defeat at the Battle of the...
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Aug 1690 | Limerick |
| x Siege of Athlone | Jun 1691 |
Athlone in central Ireland, was besieged twice during the Williamite War in Ireland (1689–91). The town is situated on the River Shannon and commanded the bridge crossing the river into the Jacobite held province of Connaught. For this reason, it...
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Jun 1691 | Athlone | |
| x Battle of Aughrim |
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Jul 12, 1691 |
The Battle of Aughrim (Irish: Cath Eachroma) was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the Jacobites and the forces of William III on 12 July 1691 (old style, equivalent to 23 July new style), near the village...
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Jul 12, 1691 | Aughrim, County Galway |
| x Siege of Limerick | Oct 1691 |
Limerick in western Ireland was besieged twice during the Williamite War in Ireland (1689-91). The city, held by Jacobite forces was able to beat off a Williamite assault in 1690. However, after a second siege in August-October 1691, it surrendered...
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Aug 1691 | Limerick | |
| x Irish Rebellion of 1798 |
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The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Irish: Éirí Amach 1798), also known as the United Irishmen Rebellion (Irish: Éirí Amach na nÉireannach Aontaithe), was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against British rule in the Kingdom of Ireland. The...
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1798 | Ireland | |
| x Battle of Prosperous |
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May 23, 1798 |
United Irish taking of Prosperous, Co. Kildare, 1798
Prosperous, a recently founded (1780) cotton-manufacturing town in Co. Kildare was attacked shortly after the outbreak of the 1798 rebellion at 2 a.m on 24 May 1798 by a rebel force about 600...
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May 23, 1798 | County Kildare |
| Prosperous, County Kildare | |||||
