What is recorded here

Mud and blood mixed in the Bann water when men waded across during the 1689 battle. The ford remains a living scar where human desperation met river current. Glenone still holds the shape of that violence beneath ordinary life.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as FORD across R. BANN & SITE OF BATTLE, 1689 (see also ANT 031:052 for opposite side of the river). Recorded period: POST-MED; C17TH; UNCERTAIN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Jacobite forces under James II's supporters fought Protestant William of Orange's troops during the Williamite War in Ireland; the 1689 battle near the River Bann in Glenone was part of a wider campaign that helped secure Protestant control in Northern Ireland.

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