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THE BATTLE-FIELDS OF IRELAND,

FROM 1688 TO 1691:

INCLUDING

LIMERICK AND ATHLONE,

AUGHRIM

AND

THE BOYNE.

BEING AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF THE JACOBITE WAR IN IRELAND, AND THE CAUSES
WHICH LED TO IT.

   "And as they tread the ruined Isle,
   Where rest, at length, the lord and slave,
   They'll wondering ask, how hands so vile
   Could conquer hearts so brave?"      MOORE


  NEW YORK:
  ROBERT CODDINGTON, PUBLISHER,
  366 BOWERY.
  1867.




Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867,

BY ROBERT CODDINGTON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for
the Southern District of New York.




INTRODUCTION.


Most of the following chapters were written some time since, at the
request of the publisher, whose intention it was to present the readers
of Irish history with a portable volume, which, while removing the
necessity of wading through many tomes, would give an authentic account
of the two leading events of a very important period,--the battles of
the Boyne and Aughrim.

Having undertaken the task, and performed it to the extent of his
information, it appeared to the writer that, without some allusion to
antecedent causes and intermediate events, the book, though it should
be acceptable to some, would be quite unsatisfactory to others