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Tudor

Battle site (Glasdrummond)

1493
northern_ireland
Era
Tudor
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
northern_ireland
Status
Unregistered
The Battle

History & Significance

Battle site (Glasdrummond) was a Tudor pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Northern Ireland in 1493. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record. It dates to the Tudor era of 1485 to 1603, a century of dynastic consolidation, religious upheaval and recurring conflict on the kingdom's frontiers.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Battle site (Glasdrummond) lies on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.

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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 (Glasdrummond)

Ring barrow
Ring barrow
Scheduled monument · BRONZE AGE · ~0.9 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…

Aghaloo. medieval church & graveyard
Aghaloo. medieval church & graveyard
Scheduled monument · LATE-MED · ~2.9 mi

Aghaloo is a medieval church and graveyard situated near Dungannon in County Tyrone. This late medieval ecclesiastical site occupies ground formed from Tyrone Group bedrock, a Visean-age sequence of limestone, mudstone and sandstone interspersed with siltstone, chert and coal deposits. The underl…

Architectural fragment
Architectural fragment
Scheduled monument · MEDIEVAL · ~4.1 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…

Martray fort. bivallate rath
Martray fort. bivallate rath
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~4.7 mi

Martray fort is a bivallate rath, an early Christian fortified residence located near Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The monument comprises two concentric defensive earthen banks surrounding a central enclosure, a defensive arrangement typical of Irish raths dating to the early med…

Favor royal bawn. favor royal bawn
Favor royal bawn. favor royal bawn
Scheduled monument · POST-MED · ~4.9 mi

Favor Royal Bawn is a post-medieval fortification located near Dungannon in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The site lies on Visean-age bedrock comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, geology that has shaped the landscape of this region for over 300 million years. As a bawn—a fo…

Early 19th-century beam engine, engine house and chimney base.
Early 19th-century beam engine, engine house and chimney base.
Scheduled monument · C19TH · ~6.8 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…

Horned cairn. court tomb
Scheduled monument · NEOLITHIC · ~0.1 miles
Crannog in carnteel lough
Scheduled monument · E.CHRIST. · ~0.7 miles
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