Battle of Newtownmountkennedy

Part of the United Irishmen Rebellion

Date	30 May 1798
Location	Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow
Result	British victory

Belligerents

United Irishmen

British Army

Strength

~1,000

~140

United Irishmen Rebellion

Ballymore-Eustace Naas Rathangan Prosperous Kilcullen Carnew Dunlavin Carlow Harrow Tara Hill Oulart Hill Enniscorthy Gibbet Rath Newtownmountkennedy Three Rocks Bunclody Tuberneering New Ross/Scullabogue Antrim Arklow Saintfield Ballynahinch Ovidstown Foulksmills Vinegar Hill Ballyellis Castlebar Collooney Ballinamuck Killala Tory Island

The Battle of Newtownmountkennedy was a battle fought on 30 May 1798, between forces of the British Crown and a force of Irish Rebels, during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Sources

Musgrave, Richard. Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland. Third edition. Dublin, 1802.

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