Forts · Northern Ireland
Battle of Benburb 1646
Also known as: Cath na Binne Boirbe
In or near Carrickaness.
Battle of Benburb 1646 is a fort in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
About
Battle of Benburb 1646 is a historic fort or fortified site in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 54.4174°, -6.7687°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Battle of Benburb took place on 5 June 1646 during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between the Irish Confederates under Owen Roe O'Neill, and an army of Scottish Covenanters and Scottish/English settlers under Robert Monro. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the Irish Confederates and ended Scottish hopes of conquering Ireland and imposing their own religious settlement there.
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Background
History
The Scots Covenanters had landed an army in Ulster in 1642, to protect the Scottish settlers there from the massacres that followed the Irish Rebellion of 1641. They landed at Carrickfergus and linked up with Sir Robert Stewart and the Laggan Army of Protestant settlers from County Donegal in northwest Ulster. The Covenanters cleared northeastern Ulster of Irish rebels by 1643 but were unable to advance south of mid-Ulster, which was held by Owen Roe O'Neill, the general of the Irish Confederate Ulster army. In 1646, Monro led a force composed of Scottish Covenanter regiments and Ulster settlers armies into Confederate-held territory. According to some accounts, this was the first step in a…
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- Coordinates
- 54.4174, -6.7687
- District
- Mid Ulster
- Postcode
- BT71 7QF
- Parliamentary constituency
- Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Sources
- osm: n3712175026 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Battle of Benburb (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Plan of the battle of Benburb (c. 1907).jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Battle of Benburb 1646?
- Battle of Benburb 1646 is in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (postcode BT71 7QF).
- What is Battle of Benburb 1646?
- Battle of Benburb 1646 is a fort in the United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Battle of Benburb 1646?
- Drivers can use postcode BT71 7QF.
- How do I get to Battle of Benburb 1646?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode BT71 7QF. It sits within the Fermanagh and South Tyrone parliamentary constituency.