What is recorded here

Fifteen women named Mary Burke bled into the Cloonagashel earth in 1592 after Bingham defeated their men, turning a ordinary field into a grave before golf carts and manicured grass forgot the blood. The soil still holds their names even though no stone marks them, forcing every swing and laugh above to land on top of fifteen repeated identities. Forgetting is not the same as peace; it is only a larger room for the same event.

Formerly pasture, now in grounds of golf club, 500m NE of castle (MA110-056001-). O’Donovan (1838, 77) refers to a battle at Cloonagashel in 1592, in which Bingham defeated the Burkes and afterwards killed fifteen women, each named Mary Burke. No visible surface traces. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 669. Date of upload: 30 October 2013

In 1592, Sir Henry Bingham defeated the Burke clan at Cloonnagashel, County [unknown], during conflicts in Gaelic Ireland. The battle is noted for Bingham's subsequent killing of fifteen Burke women, highlighting the brutality of the period's clan warfare and English efforts to subdue Irish resistance.

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