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Battle of Benburb 1646 is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4174°, -6.7687°.

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Battle of Benburb 1646

Also known as: Cath na Binne Boirbe

Battle of Benburb 1646 is a fort in the United Kingdom.

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Battle of Benburb 1646 is a historic fort or fortified site in the United Kingdom. Coordinates: 54.4174°, -6.7687°. This entry is part of The Great Britain Guide, a free, ad-free, open-data tourist directory.

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The Battle of Benburb took place on 5 June 1646 during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between the Irish Confederates under Owen Roe O'Neill, and an army of Scottish Covenanters and Scottish/English settlers under Robert Monro. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the Irish Confederates and ended Scottish hopes of conquering Ireland and imposing their own religious settlement there.

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The Scots Covenanters had landed an army in Ulster in 1642, to protect the Scottish settlers there from the massacres that followed the Irish Rebellion of 1641. They landed at Carrickfergus and linked up with Sir Robert Stewart and the Laggan Army of Protestant settlers from County Donegal in northwest Ulster. The Covenanters cleared northeastern Ulster of Irish rebels by 1643 but were unable to advance south of mid-Ulster, which was held by Owen Roe O'Neill, the general of the Irish Confederate Ulster army. In 1646, Monro led a force composed of Scottish Covenanter regiments and Ulster settlers armies into Confederate-held territory. According to some accounts, this was the first step in a…

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