| General Details |
Name / Location | journey to Scotland from Ulster |
Date | 1413 |
Scene | water |
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Cause | Tuathal O Maille went to Ulster as a mercenary soldier and spent a year there. He was on his way home about Colum Cille's day with 7 ships full of his people when he was caught in a storm of the western sea. |
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Result | The fleet was driven northwards (with Scotland on their right hand) and 6 ships were sunk with all on board. |
Long Term Consequences | Tuathal himself barely managed to land in Scotland. |
Individuals Involved in Battle / Event | Donnchadh, son of Eoghan Connachtach mac Suibhne |
| Forces Involved Details |
Forces Involved - For | Tuathal O Maille and his two sons; Donnchad son of Eoghan Connachtach mac Suibhne; Domnall Ballach, the son of Mac Suibhne Gerr and 220 others. (7 ships full of the people - men and women - of Tuathal O Maille) |
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Place of Galloglass in Forces Involved | 1st of 2 |
Victory / Defeat / Neither | |
Casulties For: Dead | Two sons of Tuathal O Maille; Donnchad son of Eoghan Connachtach mac Suibhne; Domnall Ballach the son of Mac Suibhne Gerra and 220 others were drowned with them. |
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Casulties Against: Dead | |
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Role in Battle | significant |
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Weaponry | use of seven ships |
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| Source(s) |
Title | The Annals of Connacht (AD 1224-1544), ed. A. Martin Freeman (Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944), pp. 417-9 |