Siege of Galway 1651-1652
Part of the Irish Confederate Wars
The heavily fortified city of Galway in 1651. It was the last Irish stronghold to fall to the Parliamentarians, surrendering in 1652.
Date: August 1651 - May 1652 Location: Galway, western Ireland Result: English Parliamentarians take Galway after 9 month siege
Combatants
Irish Confederate Catholics	English Parliamentarians New Model Army and Protestant settlers from Ulster
Commanders
Thomas Preston	Charles Coote
Strength
2000 soldiers and civilian population, 3000 more soldiers nearby	6-7000 men,

Galway a port city in western Ireland, was besieged from August 1651 to May 1652 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Galway the the last city held by Irish Catholic forces in Ireland and it fall signalled the end most organised resistance to the Parliamentarian conquest of the country. The English Parliamentarians were commanded by Charles Coote, an English settler who had commanded Parliamentarian forces in the north west of Ireland throughout the Irish Confederate Wars. Galway was garrisoned by Irish Confederate soldiers under Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, many of whom had reached the city after after an unsuccesfull deence of Waterford. The Irish Confederate Wars were fought in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. ... Download high resolution version (947x668, 421 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (947x668, 421 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... // Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ... Look up May in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ... Galway (official Irish name: Gaillimh) is the only city in the province of Connacht in Ireland and capital of County Galway. ... Kilkenny Castle, where the Confederate General Assembly met. ... The New Model Army became the best known of the various Parliamentarian armies in the English Civil War. ... Ulster (Irish: Cúige Uladh, IPA: ) forms one of the four provinces of Ireland. ... Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (1585 - 1655) was an Irish soldier of the seventeenth century. ... Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland with his New Model Army on behalf of the English Parliament in 1649. ... The battle of Rathmines was fought in around the modern Dublin suburb of Rathmines in August 1649, during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. ... Drogheda, a town in eastern Ireland, was besieged twice in the 1640s, during the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. ... The Sack of Wexford took place in October 1649, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, when the New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell took Wexford town in south-eastern Ireland. ... The city of Waterford in south eastern Ireland was besieged from 1649-50 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. ... The Siege of Clonmel took place during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when the town of Clonmel in southern Ireland was besieged by Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army. ... The battle of Macroom was fought in 1650, near Macroom, county Cork, in southern Ireland, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. ... The battle of Scarrifholis was fought in Donegal in north-western Ireland, on the 21st of June 1650, during the Irish Confederate Wars – part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. ... The city of Limerick in south-western Ireland was besieged several times in the 17th century, first during the Irish Confederate Wars of the 1640s and’50s again in the Williamite war in Ireland. ... The battle of Knocknaclashy, took place in county Cork in southern Ireland in 1651. ... Galway (official Irish name: Gaillimh) is the only city in the province of Connacht in Ireland and capital of County Galway. ... Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland with his New Model Army on behalf of the English Parliament in 1649. ... The Irish Confederate Wars were fought in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. ... Kilkenny Castle, where the Confederate General Assembly met. ... Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (1585 - 1655) was an Irish soldier of the seventeenth century. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ...

The citizens of Galway had paid for extensive moderned bastioned defences during the 1640s and the city was very difficult to assault, given that it was surrounded by Galway Bay on its south side, Lough Corrib to its north west and Lough Atalia to its east. As a result any assault would be confined to a narrow corridor to the north of the town, allowing the defender to concentrate their fire. Coote was aware of this and after he arrived at Galway in August 1651, decided to blockade the city rather than to attack it directly. He laid out his siege lines between Lough Atallia and Lough Corrib and stationed a Parliamentary fleet in in Galwat Bay to cut off supplies or reinforcement from reaching the city. However, Galway remained open to the west and Irish general Richard Farrell was quartered in Connemara with 3000 more troops. The point of a bastion on a reconstructed French fort in Illinois. ... Galway Bay (Irish: Loch Lurgain or Cuan na Gaillimhe) is a large bay/sea loch on the west coast of Ireland, between County Galway in the province of Connacht to the north and the district of Burren in County Clare in the province of Munster to the south. ... A map of Lough Corrib taken from the Admiralty Chart made in 1846 Lough Corrib (Loch Coirib in Irish) is a lake in the west of Ireland. ... Connemara (Irish Conamara), which derives from Conmhaicne Mara (meaning: descendants of Con Mhac, of the sea), is a district in the west of Ireland (County Galway). ...

In November 1651, after the fall of Limerick Henry Ireton, the Parliamentarian commander in Ireland, decided to maek the capture of Galway the main priority for his forces. As a result, he re-inforced Coote and tightened the blockade on Galway. The siege dragged on for seven more months before Galway capitulated. Ulick Burke, Earl of Clanricarde, who was nominally the supreme commander of the Irish Catholic forces, tried to assemble an army at Jamestown County Leitrim to relieve Galway, but few of the demoralised Irish force aroound the country responded to his order. In March, a conference of Irish officers in Galway, including Clanricarde, decided to begin negotiations for terms of surrender. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ... Henry Ireton Henry Ireton (1611 - November 26, 1651), English was a general in the army of Parliament during the English Civil War. ... Jamestown is the name of the following places in the United States of America: Jamestown, California Jamestown, Colorado Jamestown, Indiana Jamestown, Kansas Jamestown, Kentucky Jamestown, Louisiana Jamestown, Missouri Jamestown, New York Jamestown, North Carolina Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown, Ohio Jamestown, Oklahoma Jamestown, Pennsylvania Jamestown, Rhode Island Jamestown, South Carolina Jamestown... County Leitrim (Irish: Contae Liatroma) is one of the counties of the island of Ireland and of the Republic of Ireland and is part of the province of Connacht, in the west of the island. ...

Thomas Preston, the military governor of Galway, eventually agreed to surrender the city on May 12 1652. his position had become impossible due to food shortages and an outbreak of bubonic plague in Galway. Coote agreed to let Preston leave Ireland with most of his troops and enter the Spanish service. The lives and property of the citizens of Galway was respected by the Parliamentarians for the most part, but the Catholic merchant families of the city, the "Tribes of Galway" had to pay heavy fines and were excluded from the municipal government of Galway. Der Doctor Schnabel von Rom (English: The Doctor Beak of Rome) engraving by Paul Fürst (after J Columbina). ... The Tribes of Galway were fourteen merchant families who dominated the political commercial and social life in the town of Galway between the 13th and 16th centuries. ...

See also

For other sieges of Galway, see Sieges of Galway The city of Galway - built as a naval base and military fort by Tairrdelbach mac Ruaidri Ua Conchobair in 1124, refounded as a town by Richard Mor de Burgh in 1230 - has been subjected to a number of battles, sacks and sieges. ...

Sources

• Padraig Lenihan, Confederate Catholics at War
• James Scot Wheeler, Cromwell in Ireland