This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Battle of Kilrush article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
It is requested that an image or photograph of Battle of Kilrush be
included in this article to
improve its quality. Please replace this template with a more specific
media request template where possible.
The Free Image Search Tool or Openverse Creative Commons Search may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites. |
Any objections to changing the citation system to reflist in the hope of encouraging more refs with the more common format? RashersTierney ( talk) 01:03, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
Show us any other battles in Ireland in the 1640s involving 11,000 men that are described as skirmishes, never mind as "small" skirmishes. 78.17.23.211 ( talk) 15:21, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
It was a battle in terms of the numbers involved, but more so from the strategic effect if the only royalist field army had been surrounded and destroyed at Kilrush. Ormonde's army had reached Maryborough (now Portlaoise) unopposed, and carried supplies as far afield as Borris in Carlow and Birr in Offaly. This had maintained royalist morale across the midlands, that would have collapsed a year earlier than it did (in 1643). Ormonde's enemies were unable to oppose his army in February 1642, when it took Naas, and so they had to destroy it on its return to Dublin, but failed. 78.18.201.8 ( talk) 13:11, 9 September 2021 (UTC)