The Battle of Knocknanauss was fought in Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ...1647, during the The Wars of the Three Kingdoms include an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 which included the Bishops Wars of 1639 and 1640, the Scottish Civil War of 1644_5; the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Confederate Ireland, 1642_9 and...Wars of the Three Kingdoms, between Confederate Ireland’s Munster army and an English A parliamentarian is a specialist in parliamentary procedure. ...Parliamentarian army under Inchiquinn. The battle resulted in a crushing defeat for the Irish Confederates. When combined with the The Battle of Dungans Hill took place in Meath, in eastern Ireland in August 1647. ...battle of Dungans Hill, it led to the collapse of the Confederate Catholic cause and forced them to make a deal with the English The noun or adjective, Royalist, can have several shades of meaning. ...Royalists.

In the summer of 1647, Murrough O’Brien, Earl Inchiquinn, commander of the English Parliamentarian forces in Cork _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...Cork, ravaged and burned the Confederate territory in Alternate uses: See Munster (disambiguation). ...Munster. This caused severe food shortages and earned Inchiquinn the Irish nickname, Murchadh na doiteann (Murrough the burner). The Confederate’s Munster army was incapable of stopping Inchiquinn because of political infighting between officers who supported a deal with the English Royalists and those who rejected such a deal. Eventually, when near famine conditions were approaching as a result of Inchiquinn’s pillaging, the Confederate Supreme Council replaced Donagh MacCarthy, Viscount Muskerry, as commander of the Munster army with Viscount Taafe and ordered him to bring Inchiquinn to battle.

Taafe was an English Catholic is a term generally used in relation to the members, beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. ...Catholic and not an experienced soldier. Moreover, although he had an excellent contingent of veteran troops under Alasdair MacColla (circa 1620 to 1647) was Scottish-Irish soldier. ...Alasdair MacColla, most of his men were similarly inexperienced. Furthermore, the Irish troops were demoralised by the internal factionalism in their ranks and most of them had little loyalty to Taafe. Inchiquinn, on the other hand, had been commanding his force since 1642 and was well tried in battle. His troops were a mixture of well trained Parliamentarian soldiers shipped from England and British settlers who had been driven from their homes in the 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. ...Irish Rebellion of 1641. The two armies met at Knocknanauss, near Mallow is a plant species in the genus Malva or in one of several related genera of the Malvaceae, including Lavatera (tree mallow/rose mallow), Althaea (marsh mallow), Sidalcea (Greek mallow), Callirhoe (poppy mallow), and Abelmoschus (okra). ...Mallow in Cork _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...Cork in November 1647.

The battle that followed was essentially an uncoordinated rout of the Irish forces. Taafe positioned his men on either side of a hill, so that they could not see one another. So one wing of the Confederate army had no idea of what the other wing was doing. MacColla’s men charged the Parliamentarians opposite them and put them to flight. Thinking the battle was over, they then took to looting the enemies baggage train. However, on the other wing, Inchiquinn’s cavalry had charged the raw Irish horsemen, causing them to run away. Despite Taafe’s desperate attempt to rally them, the Irish infantry followed suit, many of them being cut down by the pursuing roundheads. MacColla and his men surrendered when they realised what had happened but were subsequently killed by their captors. Around 3000 men died at Knocknanauss, the vast majority of them Confederates.

See also

• Irish Confederate Wars began with the rebellion of the Irish of Ulster in October 1641, during which they regained their confiscated lands and murdered hundreds, possibly thousands, of Scots and English Protestant settlers. ...Irish Confederate Wars

• Confederate Ireland

• This page aims to give a list of and links to pages of battles in Irish history. ...Irish battles