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English Civil War

Battle site (Ballintoy)

1641
northern_ireland
Era
English Civil War
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
northern_ireland
Status
Unregistered
The Battle

History & Significance

Battle site (Ballintoy) was a Civil War pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Northern Ireland in 1641. 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 (Ballintoy) lies on Hibernian Greensands Formation And Ulster White Limestone Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Cretaceous. The rock here is chalk and sandstone.

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Monuments
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Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
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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Scheduled Monuments near Battle site (Ballintoy)

Ice house (of carrickarade salmon fishery)
Ice house (of carrickarade salmon fishery)
Scheduled monument · C18TH/C19TH · ~1.4 mi

Carrickarade ice house is a 18th or 19th-century ice house serving the salmon fishery at Carrickarade in County Antrim. The structure sits on Palaeogene extrusive rocks, a foundation of ancient mafic lava and tuff formed during the early Tertiary period when volcanic activity shaped the north Ant…

Portbradden ice house. ice house
Portbradden ice house. ice house
Scheduled monument · ~1.9 mi

Portbradden ice house is a substantial underground structure built into the distinctive basaltic bedrock of the Antrim plateau. The dark volcanic rock underlying the site, formed during Paleogene times from ancient lava flows and related volcanic deposits, provided ideal conditions for ice storag…

Dun sobhairce, dunseverick castle. dunseverick castle
Dun sobhairce, dunseverick castle. dunseverick castle
Scheduled monument · C13TH · ~3.1 mi

Dunseverick Castle is a thirteenth-century fortification located in Moyle, County Antrim, commanding a position on the north Antrim coast. The castle exploits the natural defensive advantages of its geological setting, built upon Palaeogene extrusive rocks formed from ancient mafic lava flows and…

Ice house (associated with port moon salmon fishery)
Ice house (associated with port moon salmon fishery)
Scheduled monument · UNCERTAIN · ~3.8 mi

Port Moon Ice House is a nineteenth-century ice house located in Moyle, County Antrim, built to serve what is believed to have been a salmon fishery. The structure survives as a testament to the infrastructure required for preserving fresh fish before the advent of mechanical refrigeration. Ice h…

Castlenagree. mound (cashel or barrow?)
Castlenagree. mound (cashel or barrow?)
Scheduled monument · PREHISTORIC · ~5.2 mi

Castlenagree is a prehistoric mound located in Moyle, Northern Ireland, situated on bedrock of Palaeogene extrusive rocks comprising mafic lava and mafic tuff. The monument's precise classification—whether cashel (stone-built enclosure) or barrow (burial mound)—requires further investigation, tho…

Quay complex
Quay complex
Scheduled monument · MODERN · ~5.4 mi

Moyle Quay Complex is a modern quay situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The structure is founded upon bedrock comprising the Hibernian Greensands Formation and Ulster White Limestone Formation, a mixed sequence of chalk and sandstone laid down during the Late Cretaceous period some 100 m…

The potters' cave. iron age occupation site
Scheduled monument · IRON AGE · ~0.5 miles
Druid's stone, mount druid, druid stone, the druid stone, mount druid cromlech. passage tomb
Scheduled monument · NEOLITHIC · ~0.6 miles
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