The Battle of Julianstown was fought during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, at Julianstown near Drogheda in eastern Ireland, in November 1641. The Irish Rebellion of 1641 began as an attempted coup détat by Irish Catholic gentry, but rapidly degenerated into bloody inter communal violence between native Irish Catholics and English and Scottish Protestant settlers. ... Categories: Ireland-place stubs | Towns in Meath ... Drogheda (Irish: Droichead Átha) is an industrial and port town 26 miles north of Dublin, in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland. ... Events The Long Parliament passes a series of legislation designed to contain Charles Is absolutist tendencies. ...
The insurgents, led by Phelim O’Neill moved south from Ulster towards Dublin, hoping to take the capital. An untrained, hastily raised force of Government soldiers, largely composed of refugees from the fighting in the north, was sent against them. The two sides met at the bridge at Julianstown. What followed was a simple rout. The Irish rebels charged the soldiers, shouting their war cry. The soldiers attempted to hold them off by firing in volleys, but were unable to co-ordinate their actions and panicked when they saw the rebels bearing down on them. Many threw down their muskets and ran away, the remainder being either killed or captured. One source tell us that the rebels spared the Irishmen in the soldier’s ranks, but killed all the Englishmen and Scots. For other places and things named Ulster, see Ulster (disambiguation). ... Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ... Categories: Ireland-place stubs | Towns in Meath ...
The consequences of this skirmish were far disproportionate to its military significance. The rebel’s victory made them seem much more formidable than they actually were and helped to spread the rebellion to the rest of Ireland. This indirectly helped to trigger the English Civil War and Confederate Ireland – a short-lived independent Irish state. The English Civil War (or Wars) refers to the series of armed conflicts and political machinations which took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651, specifically to the first (1642–1645) and second (1648–1649) civil wars between the supporters of King Charles I and the supporters of... Confederate Ireland refers to a brief period of Irish self-government between the Rebellion of 1641 and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649. ...
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