When did Battle site (Crosscavanagh) take place?

Battle site (Crosscavanagh) took place in 1493, northern_ireland.

Who won Battle site (Crosscavanagh)?

The victor at Battle site (Crosscavanagh) is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Tudor

Battle site (Crosscavanagh)

1493

northern_ireland

Era

Tudor

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

northern_ireland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Battle site (Crosscavanagh) was a Tudor pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Northern Ireland in 1493. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record. It dates to the Tudor era of 1485 to 1603, a century of dynastic consolidation, religious upheaval and recurring conflict on the kingdom's frontiers.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Battle site (Crosscavanagh) lies on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.

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Battlefields

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Roman World

Ireland was never conquered by Rome, so this traces the island's Iron Age kingdoms and its contact with the Roman world.

Historic Records

The 19th-century records of this place: valuations, Ordnance Survey memoirs and topographical accounts.

Civil War

The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.

Geology

The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.

Local Names

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Battle site (Crosscavanagh)

Dungannon castle, o'neill's castle. castle & house (site of)

Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~5.1 mi

Dungannon castle is a post-medieval fortification located in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The castle served as a significant stronghold of the O'Neill dynasty, particularly during the sixteenth century when the O'Neills held considerable power in Ulster. The site represents both de…

Ring barrow

Scheduled monument · BRONZE AGE · ~5.5 mi

The Ring Barrow, Dungannon is a Bronze Age burial mound characterised by a circular earthen bank and ditch. Located in County Tyrone, the monument sits on bedrock of the Tyrone Group, a geological formation dating to the Visean period composed primarily of limestone, mudstone, sandstone and silts…

Martray fort. bivallate rath

Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~5.9 mi

Martray fort is a bivallate rath, an early Christian fortified residence located near Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The monument comprises two concentric defensive earthen banks surrounding a central enclosure, a defensive arrangement typical of Irish raths dating to the early med…

Aghaloo. medieval church & graveyard

Scheduled monument · LATE-MED · ~7.2 mi

Aghaloo is a medieval church and graveyard situated near Dungannon in County Tyrone. This late medieval ecclesiastical site occupies ground formed from Tyrone Group bedrock, a Visean-age sequence of limestone, mudstone and sandstone interspersed with siltstone, chert and coal deposits. The underl…

Standing stone

Scheduled monument · PREHISTORIC · ~7.6 mi

The standing stone at Omagh is a prehistoric monument of unknown date, typical of the upright stones raised in Ireland during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. The stone itself stands upon bedrock of the Fintona Group, a formation of sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate deposited d…

Architectural fragment

Scheduled monument · MEDIEVAL · ~7.9 mi

The Dungannon architectural fragment is a medieval stone element discovered at grid reference H7740153557 in County Tyrone. Protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division, it survives as evidence of structured building activity during the medieval period in the Ulster regi…

Crannog

Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~2.2 miles

Giant's grave. wedge tomb

Scheduled monument · NEO/B.A. · ~2.3 miles

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Battle site (Crosscavanagh) · NISMR

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