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Roman Period

Battle site (Ballygowan)

108
northern_ireland
Era
Roman Period
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
northern_ireland
Status
Unregistered
The Battle

History & Significance

Battle site (Ballygowan) was a Roman pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Northern Ireland in 108. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record. The engagement belongs to Roman Britain, the period of conquest and occupation that followed the invasion of AD 43 and the campaigns against the island's native peoples.

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The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Battle site (Ballygowan) lies on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.

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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
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Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
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Scheduled Monuments near Battle site (Ballygowan)

Findspot of flint and pottery
Findspot of flint and pottery
Scheduled monument · NEOLITHIC · ~3.1 mi

Findspot of flint and pottery — a neolithic findspot is a Neolithic archaeological site located at Larne in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The site lies on bedrock composed of Palaeogene extrusive rocks, principally mafic lava and tuff formed during the Palaeogene period. This geological founda…

Mounds (2) and neolithic & bronze age pottery and flint scatters
Mounds (2) and neolithic & bronze age pottery and flint scatters
Scheduled monument · NEOLITHIC · ~3.3 mi

Mounds (2) and neolithic & bronze age pottery and flint scatters is a neolithic settlement site at Larne in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The site comprises two earthen mounds and a scatter of worked flint and pottery spanning the neolithic and bronze age periods. The monument is protected by…

Lislaynan, templecorran church, temple-i-corran. post-med church on site of medieval parish church & graveyard
Lislaynan, templecorran church, temple-i-corran. post-med church on site of medieval parish church & graveyard
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~6.7 mi

Templecorran Church is a post-medieval ecclesiastical site located in Larne, County Antrim, occupying the location of a medieval parish church and its associated graveyard. The church represents a continuity of religious use at this spot spanning centuries, with the medieval structures eventually…

Barrow
Barrow
Scheduled monument · BRONZE AGE · ~6.8 mi

Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound situated in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in the townland of Greenisland. The monument stands on bedrock of the Mercia Mudstone Group, a geological formation laid down during the Rhaetian age and comprising mudstone, sandstone and limestone. These underlying de…

Motte
Motte
Scheduled monument · MEDIEVAL · ~7.1 mi

Newtownabbey Motte is a medieval earthwork monument located in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The motte survives as an elevated mound characteristic of early Norman fortifications, constructed to command the surrounding landscape. Such mottes typically supported a timber palisade and a wooden t…

Boundary wall of joymount gardens
Boundary wall of joymount gardens
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~7.3 mi

Boundary wall of Joymount Gardens is a post-medieval defensive wall in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, constructed to enclose the gardens of a substantial residential property. Built from locally quarried stone derived from the underlying Mercia Mudstone Group geology of the area, the wall reflects…

Carndoo, the abbey, druid's altar. court tomb
Scheduled monument · NEOLITHIC · ~1 miles
Counterscarp rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~1.3 miles
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