The Second Battle of Athenry ( ) took place at

Athenry Athenry (; ) is a town in County Galway, Ireland, which lies east of Galway city. Some of the attractions of the medieval town are its town wall, Athenry Castle, its priory and its 13th century street-plan. The town is also well known by virt ...

( gle, Áth na Ríogh) in

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on 10 August 1316 during the

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Overview

The collective number of both armies are unknown, and can only be estimated. Martyn believes the royal army to have been as much as or more than a thousand, while that of Athenry was probably several hundred less. The list of deceased participants on the Irish side alone indicates that exceptionally high numbers were involved.

Outcome

Unlike the First Battle of Athenry in 1249, no account is given of the battle itself in any surviving account. Even the site of the battle itself is uncertain. Rickard de Bermingham and

William Liath de Burgh William Liath de Burgh (; ; died 1324) was an Irish noble and deputy Justiciar of Ireland (1308–09). Background De Burgh was a son of William Og de Burgh, who was killed at the Battle of Áth-an-Chip or Athankip in 1270, and a nephew of ...

led an Anglo-Irish force to victory.

John Clyn John Clyn, O.F.M. (c. 1286 – c. 1349), of the Friars Minor, Kilkenny, was a 14th-century Irish friar and chronicler who lived at the time of the Black Death. Background Clyn was probably born in Leinster some years prior to 1300, possibly a ...

states that "According to common report a sum of five .... thousand in all ere killedthe number decapitated was one thousand five hundred." The battle was a devastating defeat for the Connacht Gaels, who were allied with the

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Edward Bruce Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick ( Norman French: ; mga, Edubard a Briuis; Modern Scottish Gaelic: gd, Eideard or ; – 14 October 1318), was a younger brother of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots. He supported his brother in the 1306–1314 st ...

. Among those killed were kings Fedlim Ó Conchobair and

Tadhg Ó Cellaigh Tadhg Ó Cellaigh, also known as Tadhg mac Domnall O Cellaigh (Anglicized: Teig O'Kelly) (died 10 August 1316) was King of Uí Maine and Chief of the Name. Background Tadhg was one of five sons of Domhnall mac Conchobar mac Tadhg Taillten Ó Cel ...

King of Uí Maine. In 2016, Martyn wrote that:

Though various Uí Chonchobair were ''Rí Connacht'' till 1477, prospective recovery of the overkingdom died with Fedlimid at Athenry. The real beneficiaries were among the ostensible losers, the kings of Tuadhmhumha, Uí Maine, and Uí Fhiachrach Muaidhe. Within decades each was successfully reconstituted as independent kingdoms, existing as such for the next two hundred and fifty years. Descendants of their leading lineages survive as titled aristocracy today. The heads of King Fedlimid of Connacht and King Tadhg of Uí Maine were mounted over the town's main gate. This image remains the coat of arms of Athenry today.

Annalistic accounts

The Annals of Ulster

The Annals of Ulster give the following account (U1313, ''recte'' 1316):

The Annals of Loch Cé

After winning the battle of Tóchar-móna-Coinnedha (Templetogher,

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), on 25 January,

References

External links

* http://www.theirishstory.com/2013/02/25/7347/#.WYypqdKGOig * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U04hJWwZfUc {{Dalcassians

Athenry 1316 Athenry 1316 Athenry 1316 1316 in Ireland

Athenry Battles involving the Conmaicne Angaile