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English Civil War

Battle site (Balleny)

1649
northern_ireland
Era
English Civil War
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
northern_ireland
Status
Unregistered
The Battle

History & Significance

Battle site (Balleny) was a Civil War pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Northern Ireland in 1649. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record. It belongs to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of 1639 to 1651, when the forces of Crown and Parliament fought across England, Scotland and Ireland.

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The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Battle site (Balleny) lies on Crawford Group And Moffat Shale Group (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Llandovery. The rock here is mudstone, chert and smectite-claystone.

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Monuments
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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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Historical Maps
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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Battle site (Balleny)

Rath
Rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~5.1 mi

Rath at Lisburn is an early Christian ringfort, a residential and defensive enclosure typical of the early medieval period in Ireland. The monument survives as an earthwork defined by banks and ditches, representing the domestic settlement pattern of local elites during the centuries following th…

Chimney, bleach works & green, corn mill site. later joinery factory
Chimney, bleach works & green, corn mill site. later joinery factory
Scheduled monument · ~6.2 mi

A bleach works and green, corn mill site with later joinery factory, this monument stands at Banbridge in County Down. The chimney represents the industrial heritage of the town during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when textile bleaching and milling operations formed the backbone of th…

Rath
Rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~6.4 mi

Rath is an early Christian rath situated near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. This ringfort is built upon bedrock of the Gala Group wacke formation, which dates to the Telychian period of the Silurian. The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 7487…

Tullyear rath. rath
Tullyear rath. rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~6.5 mi

Tullyear rath is a ringfort situated near Banbridge in County Down, Northern Ireland. The monument occupies land underlain by Gala Group wacke bedrock, deposited during the Telychian geological period. The site is protected as a historic monument under Historic Environment Division reference 7734…

Cup-marked stone
Cup-marked stone
Scheduled monument · NEO/B.A. · ~6.9 mi

Cup-marked stone near Lisburn is a Neolithic or Bronze Age rock art monument, consisting of a stone surface decorated with deliberately carved cup-shaped depressions. The monument lies on bedrock of the Gala Group formation, a wacke deposit laid down during the Telychian period, which provided th…

Lisburn castle, castle gardens, lisnagarvey. castle later artillery fort (site of) & gate
Lisburn castle, castle gardens, lisnagarvey. castle later artillery fort (site of) & gate
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~8.2 mi

Lisburn Castle is a post-medieval fortification occupying a strategic position in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. The site comprises the remains of a castle that was subsequently adapted into an artillery fort, reflecting the military evolution from medieval to early modern warfare. The castle gardens…

Dromore castle. tower-house
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~0.1 miles
Counterscarp rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~0.3 miles
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