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Sep 25, 2017 · Erected A.D. 1884 to the memory of James Bellew of Drogheda who died in 1803 aged 78 years. His wife died 1804 aged 83 years. Their son James, 1830 aged 75 years. Patrick, 1838 aged 46 years. His wife Mary, 1858 aged 56 years. And their son James Bellew of Killineer, Drogheda who died 1889 aged 46 years. Also Mary Bellew, the beloved wife of
It seems that Cromwell came to Ireland not to crush Catholicism but Royalism. How does this square with Cromwell’s justification of the killing of 3552 combatants and civilians at Drogheda (the figure given by his chaplain, Hugh Peter, who will have buried them).
William, the elder, who was unmarried, died in India and John Charles, who was in the army, married Maria Sheridan and had one son and two daughters. The son, William Mark Millar Fortescue, fought with the 60th Rifles in India, married in 1862 a daughter of Anthony O'Reilly of Baltrasna and had no family.
There both Maud de Briouze and William her son were taken; they were sent back to Ireland, to King John, their lord, who was still before the castle of Carrickfergus. Hugh de Lacy was not taken along with them, but escaped and fled into Scotland.
In autumn 1646, the Ulster army, recalled from the north after its victory at Benburb, took in many of the Protestant garrisons stranded on the Catholic side of the 1643 ceasefire line. The captures were bloodless except for that of Sir John Pigott’s Disert O’Lalor in Laois.
Nov 3, 2010 · While the massacre at Drogheda in 1649 remains a blot on his reputation, in the 1650s Cromwell in fact emerged as an important and effective ally for Irish landowners seeking to defeat the punitive confiscation and transplantation policies approved by the Westminster parliament and favoured by the Dublin government.
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Oct 29, 2021 · In 1649, from September 3 to 11, Cromwell and thousands of English forces laid siege to the walled harbor town of Drogheda, which lies between Belfast and Dublin. Royalists (both Irish and...
