By 1647, The Irish Catholic Confederation controlled all of Ireland except for Parliamentarian enclaves around Dublin and Cork and a Scottish outpost in Ulster. The previous year they had rejected a treaty with the English Royalists in favour of eliminating the remaining British forces in Ireland. The battle took place near the modern village of Summerhill and along the present main road between Trim and Kilcock.
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| - By 1647, The Irish Catholic Confederation controlled all of Ireland except for Parliamentarian enclaves around Dublin and Cork and a Scottish outpost in Ulster. The previous year they had rejected a treaty with the English Royalists in favour of eliminating the remaining British forces in Ireland. The battle took place near the modern village of Summerhill and along the present main road between Trim and Kilcock.
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| - the Irish Confederate Wars
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Commander
| - Michael Jones
- Thomas Preston
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Casualties
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- over 3000 killed, many officers captured and supplies, artillery and equipment lost
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Result
| - English Parliamentarian Victory, destruction of Leinster army
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combatant
| - English Parliamentarians
- Irish Confederate Catholics Leinster Army and some Highland Scots
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Place
| - Dungan's Hill, near Summerhill, County Meath
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| - By 1647, The Irish Catholic Confederation controlled all of Ireland except for Parliamentarian enclaves around Dublin and Cork and a Scottish outpost in Ulster. The previous year they had rejected a treaty with the English Royalists in favour of eliminating the remaining British forces in Ireland. In August 1647, the Confederate Leinster army under Thomas Preston was attempting to take Dublin from the English Parliamentarian garrison under Michael Jones, when it was intercepted by the Roundheads and forced to give battle. Jones had marched to Trim to relieve the Parliamentarian outpost there at Trim Castle. Preston, who had been shadowing Jones' movements, attempted to march on Dublin before Jones' army returned there, but covered only 19 of the 60 or so kilometres (12 of the 40 miles) before being caught at Dungan's Hill, where the Confederate forces had to form up for battle. The battle took place near the modern village of Summerhill and along the present main road between Trim and Kilcock.
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