What is recorded here
Killyleagh, 1689: a battle site in County Down, recorded for the seventeenth century and marked at the centre of the archaeology. The date is not a suggestion; it is the identity of the place. Steel, fear and choice would have moved through that field, and the land kept the shape of the event.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as BATTLE SITE, 1689. Recorded period: C17TH; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
KILLYLEAGH CASTLEKILLYLEAGH CASTLE, multiperiod castle on site of Motte · 162 yd
KILLOWEN MEDIEVAL CHURCH (ruined) and GRAVEYARD; with 2 CROSS-CARVED STONES in Corporation (killyleagh)KILLOWEN MEDIEVAL CHURCH (ruined) and GRAVEYARD; with 2 CROSS-CARVED STONES · 193 yd
Dufferin ArmsPublic House · 369 yd
First Presbyterian ChurchChurch · 446 yd
Net Walk & Shore LoneyWalking route · 823 yd
ShrigleyVisitor information · 896 yd
North PointHeadland · 1082 yd
South PointHeadland · 1402 yd
CASTLE: CASTLE WILLIAM in CorporationCASTLE: CASTLE WILLIAM · 1.0 mi
Island TaggartIslet · 1.2 mi
Green IslandIslet · 1.5 mi
Nut WoodWood · 1.5 mi