What is recorded here
Antrim field, 1798: men bled for a free Ireland while the empire watched. Grass has swallowed the trenches, but the soil still remembers the weight of that choice.
Battle of Antrim 1798 is recorded as a battlefield in County Antrim. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
The Battle of Antrim in 1798 was fought between Irish rebels of the United Irishmen and British government forces during the wider 1798 Rebellion. The government forces repelled the rebels, securing a strategic victory that helped stabilize British control in northern Ireland.
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