| General Details |
| Name / Location | Baile Locha Bo |
| Date | 1464 |
| Scene | land |
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| Cause | The sons of Brian mac Donnchada were utterly routed at Baile Locha Bo by the sons of Ruaidhri mac Diarmata and Tadg mag Raghnaill and the sons of Cormac Ballach mac Donnchada. |
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| Result | Tadc son of Brian and his son, Maelruanaid son of Brian and Maelsechlainn mac Diarmata Ruadh were captured while Eoghan mac Suibhne, the constable of their galloglasses, was killed there along with sixteen galloglasses and Diarmait son of Cormac Ballach mac Donnchada was killed by a single arrow shot. |
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| Individuals Involved in Battle / Event | Eoghan mac Suibhne, constable of the galloglasses of the sons of Brian mac Donnchada, and of Maelsechlainn mac Diarmata Ruadh |
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| Forces Involved Details |
| Forces Involved - For | the sons of Brian mac Donnchada including Tadc son of Briain and his son, Maelruanaid son of Briain; and Maelsechlainn mac Diarmata Ruadh; Eoghan mac Suibhne the constable of their galloglasses |
| Forces Involved - Against | the sons of Ruaidhri mac Diarmata and Tadg mag Raghnaill and the sons of Cormac Ballach mac Donnchada including Diarmat son of Cormac Ballach |
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| Victory / Defeat / Neither | |
| Casulties For: Dead | Eoghan mac Suibhne and sixteen galloglasses. |
| Casulties For - Wounded | |
| Casulties Against: Dead | Diarmait son of Cormac Ballach mac Donnchada (killed by a single arrow shot). |
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| Employer's Name | The sons of Brian mac Donnchada, and Maelsech |
| Employer's Ethnicity | Irish |
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| Opponents Hostages |
Tadc son of Brian and his son, Maelruanaid son of Brian and Maelsechlainn mac Diarmata Ruadh were captured. |
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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), p. 521 |
| Title | The Annals of Connacht (AD 1224-1544), ed. A. Martin Freeman (Dublin: The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1944), p. 521 |
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