Wrecks and historic events in County Longford
The Discover Alone map has 12 wrecks and historic events in County Longford, Ireland. Below are the 6 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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1798 MonumentmonumentGranard’s 1798 Monument stands as a limestone high cross carved with Celtic interlacing, honoring the bloody September…
1798 MonumentmonumentWhite Sicilian marble holds a wounded pike man with a broken shaft, his bandaged forehead lifting defiance toward the…
Bully's Acregraveyard/cemetery, unknownBully's Acre in County Longford holds the buried rebels executed after the Battle of Ballinamuck in 1798. Its irregular…
Battle of BallinamuckMajor battlefieldOn 8 September 1798, twenty-six thousand British and loyalist troops crushed the last major French-backed rebel column…- Battlefield in UnknownBattlefieldUnknown is an unmarked battlefield in County Longford, Ireland, where the absence of a name does not erase the violence…
- Battlefield in Churchquarter,granard,grassyard,moatfield,rathcronan,teemore,granardkillBattlefieldGranard killed men on both sides in 1798 while French troops bled at Collooney. The town still stands with churches…