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AGHRIM

Volume 1 · 126 words · 1797 Edition

a town of Ireland, in the county of Wicklow, and province of Leinster, situated about 13 miles south-west of Wicklow.

Galway; a small village, distant about 32 miles from Dublin, and rendered memorable by a decisive battle fought there, and at Kilcommodon-hill, the 12th of July 1691, between general Ginkel and Monseigneur St Ruth, the commanders under king William III., and James II., when St Ruth, the general of the Irish army, with 7000 of his men, were slain; but of the English only 600. The victory was the more considerable, as the English army consisted of no more than 18,000 men; whereas the Irish were computed at 20,000 foot and 5000 horse and dragoons. They lost likewise nine pieces of brass cannon; all their ammunition,