| Battle of Knockdoe | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Burke of Clanricarde and allied clans | FitzGerald of Kildare and allied clans | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Ulick Fionn Burke | Gearóid Mór FitzGerald | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| c. 4,000 | c. 6,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| c. 1,500 | c. 1,000 | ||||||
The Battle of Knockdoe took place on 19 August 1504 at Knockdoe, in the Parish of Lackagh (Irish Leacach), County Galway, between two Hiberno Norman lords – Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, and Ulick Fionn Burke, 6th Clanricarde (d. 1509) – along with their respective Irish allies.[1] The cause was a dispute between Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg Ó Cellaigh (Mod. Irish Maoilseachlainn mac Thaidhg Uí Cheallaigh)(O'Kelly), King of Ui Maine – Mod. Irish Uí Mháine)[2] and Clanricarde. The major contemporary sources for this battle are the Gaelic Irish annals and a sixteenth-century manuscript written in the Pale known as "the Book of Howth".[3]
- ^ O'Carroll, Donal (2004). "The Battle of Knockdoe, 19 August 1504". Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society. 56: 46. JSTOR 25535786.
- ^ "The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country"
- ^ Chapple, Robert M., "Knockdoe (1504): the archaeological & historical significance of one of Ireland's great but forgotten battles."