What is recorded here

On 14 October 1318, Edward Bruce died at Faughart after leading a Scottish and Irish charge against Anglo-Irish defenders. His invasion had swept through Ireland since 1315, but the hill north of Dundalk stopped the man who had been offered the Irish crown. The battle did not merely kill a prince; it closed the Bruce war in Ireland and redirected the conflict back toward Scotland.

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.

A Scottish and Irish force led by Robert the Bruce and Felim O'Connor defeated an Anglo-Irish army under John de Bermingham and Edmund Butler on 14 October 1318 at Faughart, County Louth. The victory weakened Anglo-Irish power in the east and supported Scottish efforts to ally with Irish leaders against English rule.

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