Battle of Loup Hill

Battle of Loup Hill
Part of Jacobite risings
Loup House
Date 16 May 1689 Location Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland Result Williamite victory
Belligerents
Williamites	Jacobites
Commanders and leaders
William Young	Gorrie McAlister MacNeill of Gallachoille
Strength
500	200
Casualties and losses
None	2 killed

The Battle of Loup Hill took place near Loup Hill (Scottish Gaelic: Cruach na Luib) in Kintyre on 16 May 1689, during the Jacobite rising of 1689, a connected conflict of the Williamite War in Ireland.

In early May, Jacobite sympathisers took control of northern Kintyre, and when government troops arrived to retake the peninsula, they ran into an ambush on the slopes of Loup Hill. Despite the advantage of height and surprise, the Jacobites fought ineffectively and quickly retreated; a few days later, they abandoned Kintyre.

Losses on both sides were minimal and the battle itself was little more than a minor skirmish. However, the loss of Kintyre was a serious strategic setback for the Scottish rising, since it prevented them being easily re-supplied by their allies in Ulster.