Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Battlefield
Ballinafunshoge,cullentragh Park, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinafunshoge,cullentragh Park
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98371, -6.39355
- SMR number
- WI023-037----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Price (1945, 16-7) recorded the placename Lo Darrig (log dearg) which he noted was ‘The local name for the grassy flat stretch at the top of the steep side of the glen, in Ballinafundhoge and Cullentragh Park. According to local tradition it was here that the battle of Glenmalure was fought in 1580 and that Francis Cosby was killed. After hearing the name pronounced several times, I believe it represents ‘log dearg’: in the Wicklow mountains the word ‘log’ has come to be applied to a mountain, as in Lugnaquillia, Lugduff, etc.’ The ITM coordinates provided here should only be considered indicative of the general location of the placename and not the location of the battle. (Grogan and Kilfeather 1997, no. 1198)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 1 September 2017
References
Price, L. 1945 The place-names of Co. Wicklow. I - The barony of Ballinacor North. The Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (1-54).
Grogan, E. and Kilfeather, A. (comp). 1997 Archaeological inventory of County Wicklow. Dublin. Stationery Office.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.