Ardee

The next year the castle of Dungannon was taken from O'Neill, and Dundrum from Maginnis.

In 1539 he defeated O'Neill and O'Donnell at Ballyhoe, on the borders of Farney, in Monaghan, with the loss of 400 men, and the spoils they had taken from the English of Navan and Ardee.

The mayors of Dublin and Drogheda were knighted on the field for the valour they had shown at the head of their trained vans.

The same year he made a successful incursion into the territory of the Earl of Desmond, receiving the homage of many of the inferior lords, and exonerating them from the exactions of those haughty palatines.

He introduced the first Jesuit fathers into Ireland, and to him is attributed the establishment of that ultimate intercourse between the Ulster princes and the see of Rome, which characterized the latter half of the century.

He assisted at the Council of Trent from 1545 to 1547, was subsequently employed as legate in Germany, and died abroad during the reign of Edward VI.

Simultaneously with the appointment of primate Walkope, Henry III had nominated to the same dignity George Dowdall, a native of Louth, formerly prior of the Crutched Friars at Ardee in that country.

Though Dowdall accepted the nomination, he did so without acknowledging the king's supremacy in spirituals.

James, though resolved not to give up Dublin without a battle, consented to retreat till he should reach some spot where he might have the vantage of ground.

When, therefore, William's advanced guard reached Dundalk, nothing was to be seen of the Irish army except a great cloud of dust which was slowly rolling southwards towards Ardee.

The English halted one night near the ground on which Schoenberg's camp had been pitched in the preceding year.

and many sad recollections were awakened by the sight of that dreary marsh, the sepulchre of thousands of brave men.

Here, at Rathmore, in the plain of Moyliny, they were attacked by the Mandevilles and savages of the Ards of Downe, whom they defeated.

From Antrim they continued their route evidently towards Dublin, taking Dundalk and Ardee, after a sharp resistance.

At Ardee they were but thirty-five miles north of Dublin, easy of conquest if they had been provided with siege trains, which it seemed they were not.

While Bruce and O'Neill were coming up from the north, Hugh O'Donnell, lord of Tyrconnell, as if to provide occupation for the Earl of Ulster, attacked and sacked the castle and town of Sligo, and wasted the adjacent country.

The Earl, on hearing of the landing of the Scots, had mustered his forces at Athlone, and compelled the unwilling attendants of Phelim O'Connor with his clansmen.

James, though resolved not to give up Dublin without a battle, consented to retreat till he should reach some spot where he might have the vantage of ground.

When therefore William's advanced guard reached Dundalk, nothing was to be seen of the Irish army, except a great cloud of dust which was slowly rolling southwards towards Ardee.

The English halted one night near the ground on which Schomberg's camp had been pitched in the preceding year.

And many sad recollections were awakened by the sight of that dreary marsh, the sepulchre of thousands of brave men.

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Let's go to Hickey's farm in Ardee, County Louth, where the family's been growing carrots, potatoes and other vegetables for generations.

They're one of just nine commercial carrot growers left standing in Ireland.

Well, earlier on in the week, our reporter, Delic Kilroy, visited the farm to meet father and son, Martin and Gerard Hickey.