Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss

Coordinates: 55°40′37″N 5°38′46″W / 55.677°N 5.646°W / 55.677; -5.646

Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss Part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms Date 24 May 1647 Location Rhunahaorine Point, Kintyre, Scotland Result Covenanter Victory Belligerents Royalist Highland Scots Covenanter Scots Commanders and leaders Alasdair MacColla (Sir Alexander or Alasdair MacDonald) David Leslie Location within Scotland

Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms Bishops Wars Newburn First English Civil War Boldon Hill Newcastle York Marston Moor Carlisle Scottish Civil War Tippermuir Aberdeen (1644) Inverlochy Lagganmore Auldearn Alford Kilsyth Philiphaugh Aberdeen (1646) Rhunahaorine Moss Dunaverty Mauchline Muir Preston Whiggamore Raid Stirling 1st Inverness 2nd Inverness Carbisdale Third English Civil War Dunbar Inverkeithing Worcester Glencairn's rising Tullich Dalnaspidal Clan MacDonald-Clan Campbell feuds Rathlin Island (1642) Battle of Inverlochy (1645) Lagganmore (1646) Rhunahaorine Moss (1647) Castle Sween (1647) Dunaverty (1647) Glencoe (1692) Sheriffmuir (1715) Jacobite Rising of 1745

The Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss was a battle between Covenanters led by General David Leslie and Royalist forces led by Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich (Sir Alexander MacDonald) at Rhunahaorine Point, Kintyre, Scotland on 24 May 1647. The Covenanters defeated the Royalists.^[1]

Largie Castle at Rhunahaorine, home of the MacDonalds of Largie, was razed by the forces of General David Leslie.^[2]

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