Battle of Faughart

BelligerentsKingdom of Scotland and Gaelic alliesLordship of Ireland and Gaelic alliesCommanders and leadersEdward Bruce†Earl of Louth
Earl of CarrickStrength 2,000 and thousands of dispersed reinforcementsc. 20,000Casualties and losses 30 knights and more than 80 men-at-arms killed Light

The Battle of Faughart (or Battle of Dundalk) was fought on 14 October 1318 between an Anglo-Irish force led by John de Bermingham (later created 1st Earl of Louth) and Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, and a Scottish and Irish army commanded by Prince Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick, brother of King Robert I of Scots ('Robert the Bruce'). It was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence and more precisely the Irish Bruce Wars. The defeat and death of Bruce at the battle ended the attempt to revive the High Kingship of Ireland. It also ended, for the time being, King Robert's attempt to open up a second front against the English in the Wars of Scottish Independence.