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Early Medieval

Battle site (MOY)

858
northern_ireland
Era
Early Medieval
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
northern_ireland
Status
Unregistered
The Battle

History & Significance

Battle site (MOY) was an early medieval pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Northern Ireland in 858. 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 early medieval centuries, the age of the Anglo-Saxon, Pictish, Brythonic and Norse kingdoms whose rivalries shaped Britain before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Battle site (MOY) lies on Sherwood Sandstone Group, bedrock that formed in the Ladinian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.

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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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Scheduled Monuments near Battle site (MOY)

Clonfeacle, clonfeacle cross. multiperiod church & graveyard with cross
Clonfeacle, clonfeacle cross. multiperiod church & graveyard with cross
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~2.6 mi

Clonfeacle Cross is a multiperiod ecclesiastical site comprising a church and graveyard with an early Christian cross, located near Dungannon in County Tyrone. The site sits on Sherwood Sandstone Group bedrock, geology formed during the Ladinian period and composed of sandstone, siltstone and mud…

Architectural fragment
Architectural fragment
Scheduled monument · MEDIEVAL · ~4.8 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…

Dungannon castle, o'neill's castle. castle & house (site of)
Dungannon castle, o'neill's castle. castle & house (site of)
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~5 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…

Early 19th-century beam engine, engine house and chimney base.
Early 19th-century beam engine, engine house and chimney base.
Scheduled monument · C19TH · ~8.7 mi

The beam engine house at Dungannon is a c19th mill structure that represents the industrial development of the town during the early nineteenth century. The engine house survives as a substantial stone building housing the remains of a beam engine—the mechanical heart of industrial production—tog…

Ring barrow
Ring barrow
Scheduled monument · BRONZE AGE · ~8.8 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…

Charlemont fort. artillery fort
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~0.5 miles
Legar hill burial ground, legar hill, leghor hill. rath, artillery bastion & graveyard
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~0.6 miles
Lisgobban fort. bivallate rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~2.4 miles
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