What is recorded here

York Island holds a mass grave for combatants killed at the Battle of Saintfield in 1798. Men from opposite sides may have fallen together, their bones mixed beneath soil that has never been properly named. The island keeps what the mainland forgot: a reminder that war does not ask permission before it takes.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Mass Grave of combatants of Battle of Saintfield 1798 - York Island. Recorded period: C18TH. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Irish rebels and British government forces fought in the Battle of Saintfield in 1798; the battle ended in a rebel defeat. The engagement was part of the wider Irish Rebellion of 1798, which sought to end British rule in Ireland and had significant implications for Irish and British political developments.

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