What is recorded here
Tecroghan in County Meath became a battlefield in 1650. The exact date and the names of the fighters have been lost, but the land remains. What happened there is no longer clear. The absence makes the place harder to forget because imagination must complete what fact has abandoned.
Battle of Tecroghan 1650 is recorded as a battlefield in County Meath. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
A local battle between Irish Confederate forces and English Parliamentarian troops; it occurred in 1650 during the Irish Confederate Wars, resulting in a Parliamentarian victory that helped secure their control over Meath. The battle mattered as part of the wider Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
- Date
- 1650-06-19
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