Battle of Knockdoe

Battle of Knockdoe
Date19 August 1504
Location
Lackagh, County Galway
Result Kildare victory
Belligerents
The Clanricarde and allies Earl of Kildare and allies
Commanders and leaders
Ulick Fionn Burke Garret Mor FitzGerald
Strength
c. 4,000 c. 6,000
Casualties and losses
c. 1,500 c. 1,000

The Battle of Knockdoe took place on 19 August 1504 at Knockdoe, in the Parish of Lackagh (Irish Leacach), County Galway, between two Anglo-Irish lords – Gerald FitzGerald, Earl of Kildare, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, and Ulick Fionn Burke, 6th Clanricarde (d. 1509) – along with their respective Irish allies.[1] The cause was a dispute between Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg Ó Cellaigh (Mod. Irish Maoilseachlainn mac Thaidhg Uí Cheallaigh)(O'Kelly), King of Ui Maine – Mod. Irish Uí Mháine)[2] and Clanricarde. The major contemporary sources for this battle are the Gaelic Irish annals and a sixteenth-century manuscript written in the Pale known as "the Book of Howth".[3]

  1. ^ O'Carroll, Donal (2004). "The Battle of Knockdoe, 19 August 1504". Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society. 56: 46. JSTOR 25535786.
  2. ^ "The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country"
  3. ^ Chapple, Robert M., "Knockdoe (1504): the archaeological & historical significance of one of Ireland's great but forgotten battles."