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The Portadown massacre took place in November 1641 at Portadown, County Armagh, during the Irish Rebellion of 1641.Irish Catholic rebels, likely under the command of Toole McCann, killed about 100 Protestant settlers by forcing them off the bridge into the River Bann and shooting those who tried to swim to safety.
Portadown massacre: Portadown: 100+ O'Neill clansmen massacred as many as 100 English and Scottish Protestant planters, including women, children, and other noncombatants. The massacre took place on the banks of the River Bann. [5] June 1642 Baldongan massacre: Baldongan Castle, near Skerries, Dublin: 200–250 Part of the Irish Confederate Wars.
Portadown is located in an area known during the troubles as the "murder triangle" [1] because of the high number of killings carried out by paramilitary organisations on both sides. The town is the site of an annual parade in July by an ex-servicemen's lodge of the Protestant Orange Order , from St Mark's Church in the town centre, where ...
[e] Known as the Portadown massacre, it was one of the bloodiest such events to take place in Ireland during the 1640s. [50] In nearby Kilmore , English and Scottish men, women and children were burned to death in the cottage in which they were imprisoned, while in Armagh as a whole, some 1,250 died in the early months of the rebellion, roughly ...
November: Portadown Massacre, The English Protestants in Portadown are driven onto a bridge over the river Bann and then shot, piked or drowned. December 30, the first English reinforcement, 1,100 men under Simon Harcourt, arrives in Dublin.
Portadown massacre; R. Rathlin Island massacre; S. Sack of Dublin; Sack of Youghal; Siege of Smerwick; W. Sack of Wexford This page was last edited on 26 October 2024 ...
Tandragee, County Armagh, where Andrew Robb and David McIlwaine had gone on Friday night 18 February 2000. At 1:30 a.m. on Saturday 19 February 2000, Protestant acquaintances, Andrew Robb, a 19-year-old unmarried father, and David McIlwaine (known to his friends as "Mackers"), an 18-year-old graphic design student at Lurgan Tech, both of Portadown, had left "The Spot" nightclub in Tandragee ...
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1638–1653) formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in the kingdoms of England, Ireland and Scotland. During this time a number of incidents took place that some experts have described as massacres.