Battle of Druim Dearg

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Battle of Druim Dearg
Date 1260
Location near Downpatrick, County Down
Result Lordship victory
Belligerents
Northern Uí Néill,
Uí Catháin		 Lordship of Ireland
Commanders and leaders
Brian Ua Neill † James de Audley, Justiciar of Ireland
Strength
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Casualties and losses
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Invasion
Duncormac and Wexford (1169)
Post-invasion
Sieges of Dún Béal Gallimhe (1230-47) – Ballyshannon (1247) – First Áth-na-Rí (1249) – Creadran Cille (1257) – Druim Dearg (1260) – Callann (1261) – Áth-an-Chip (1270) – Connor (1315) – Kells (1315) – Skerries (1316) – Second Áth-na-Rí (1316) – Lough Raska (1317) – Dysert O'Dea (1318) – Faughart (1318) – Ardnocher (1329) – Fiodh-an-Átha (1330) – Tochar Cruachain-Bri-Ele (1385) – Ros-Mhic-Thriúin (1394) – Tragh-Bhaile (1399) – Cluain Immorrais (1406) Belahoe (1539)

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.

References

  1. ^ Orpen, Goddard Henry (1920). Ireland under the Normans Volume III. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 274-276. 
  2. ^ "Clan Maclochlainn History Sources". 2009. http://clanmaclochlainn.com/hissourc.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-14.