What is recorded here
Battle of the Diamond 1795 stands in County Armagh as a battlefield where hidden weapons and desperate men met before daylight gave them away. The land remains ordinary to modern eyes, but beneath grass and traffic it still holds the shape of that sudden violence. People may have walked past the diamond itself without knowing they touched the edge of a war waiting to begin.
Battle of the Diamond 1795 is recorded as a battlefield in County Armagh. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
The Battle of the Diamond in 1795 was a violent clash between rival Irish sectarian groups, the Orange Order and the Defenders, in County Armagh. The Orangemen, supported by government forces, defeated the Defenders, marking a significant escalation in sectarian conflict and contributing to the broader tensions that led to the 1798 Rebellion.
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