Battle of Druim Dearg
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 Northern Uí Néill,Uí Catháin |
 Lordship of Ireland |
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| Brian Ua Neill † |
James de Audley, Justiciar of Ireland | ||||||
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The Battle of Druim Dearg, also known as the Battle of Down, was a battle between the Normans and Brian Ua Neill (Brian O'Neill), High King of Ireland near Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland in 1260. The Normans won a decisive battle.[2]
The Irish forces led by Brian O'Neill had been raiding into the Norman holdings in Ulster after 1257 in an attempt to assert their independance and form a coalition of the Gael against the English. O'Neill and his men went into battle against the Normans on Sunday May 14. Brian O'Neill was killed and a number of O'Cahan chiefs.
[edit] References
- ^ Orpen, Goddard Henry (1920). Ireland under the Normans Volume III. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 274-276.
- ^ "Clan Maclochlainn History Sources". 2009. http://clanmaclochlainn.com/hissourc.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
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