Battle of Faughart

Battle of Dundalk; Battle of Dundalk
	Part of the Bruce campaign in Ireland
Date	14 October 1318
Location	Faughart, County Louth
Result	Lordship victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Scotland and Gaelic allies	Lordship of Ireland and Gaelic allies
Commanders and leaders
Edward Bruce †	John de Bermingham; Edmund Butler
Strength
2,000 and thousands of dispersed reinforcements	c. 20,000
Casualties and losses
30 knights and more than 80 men-at-arms killed	Light

The Battle of Faughart (or Battle of Dundalk^[3]) was fought on 14 October 1318 between an Anglo-Irish force led by John de Bermingham (later created 1st Earl of Louth) and Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, and a Scottish and Irish army commanded by Prince Edward Bruce, Earl of Carrick, brother of King Robert I of Scots ('Robert the Bruce'). It was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence and more precisely the Irish Bruce Wars. The defeat and death of Bruce at the battle ended the attempt to revive the High Kingship of Ireland. It also ended, for the time being, King Robert's attempt to open up a second front against the English in the Wars of Scottish Independence.

^ D'Alton, John (1845). The history of Ireland: from the earliest period to the year 1245, Vol II. Published by the author. p. 49.
^ Bruce G. & Harbottle T.B. (1971) Harbottle's Dictionary of Battles (revised edition), Hart-Davis McGibbon Ltd.; Granada Publishing, London, 1979: 303 pp.
^ D'Alton, John (1845). The history of Ireland: from the earliest period to the year 1245, Vol II page 49 "...popularly called the battle of Dundalk...". Published by the author. p. 49.