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Battle site (Ballyutoag)

northern_ireland
Era
Unknown Era
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
northern_ireland
Status
Unregistered
The Battle

History & Significance

Battle site (Ballyutoag) was a pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Northern Ireland. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Battle site (Ballyutoag) 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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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
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Scheduled Monuments near Battle site (Ballyutoag)

Brick chimney stack (ihr no.10336)
Brick chimney stack (ihr no.10336)
Scheduled monument · MODERN · ~4.2 mi

Brick chimney stack (IHR no. 10336) is a modern industrial chimney constructed from brick, standing in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The monument represents the industrial heritage of the city during the period of rapid urban expansion and manufacturing growth. Its location at grid reference J323807…

Fort william. artillery fort
Fort william. artillery fort
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~4.7 mi

Fort William is an artillery fort located in Belfast, Northern Ireland, constructed as a post-medieval fortification. Built on bedrock of the Mercia Mudstone Group—a geological formation of mudstone, sandstone and limestone dating to the Rhaetian period—the fort's position on this relatively soft…

Rath
Rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~5.5 mi

Rath — a e.christ. rath is an early Christian ringfort located in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The monument sits upon bedrock comprising the Hibernian Greensands Formation and Ulster White Limestone Formation, Late Cretaceous deposits of chalk and sandstone that underlie much of…

Barrow
Barrow
Scheduled monument · BRONZE AGE · ~5.6 mi

Barrow, Newtownabbey is a Bronze Age burial monument situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The site lies upon bedrock composed of Palaeogene extrusive rocks, specifically mafic lava and tuff deposits laid down during volcanic activity in the Paleogene period. This geological foundation pro…

Sirocco works. georgian glassworks
Sirocco works. georgian glassworks
Scheduled monument · C18TH/C19TH · ~6 mi

Sirocco Works is a Georgian glassworks situated in Belfast, Northern Ireland, occupying land underlain by Sherwood Sandstone Group bedrock. This geological foundation, comprising sandstone, siltstone and mudstone deposited during the Ladinian period, provided a stable base for the intensive indus…

Platform rath
Platform rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~6.7 mi

Platform rath is an early Christian earthwork monument situated in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The site comprises a raised circular or oval platform, a characteristic form of defended or prestige residence dating to the early medieval period in Ireland. Platform raths of this type typically served…

Trivallate rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~1.1 miles
Berginniss mount, barginnis mount. motte
Scheduled monument · MEDIEVAL · ~1.3 miles
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Battles near Battle site (Ballyutoag)

Battle at Springmartin
1972
~3.7 miles away
Battle site (Craigarogan)
1567
~3.8 miles away
Battle site (Ballyaghagan)
1468
~4 miles away
Battle of Lenadoon
1972
~4.3 miles away
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