Oktober erreichte das englische Camp das Gerücht, dass O'Neill den Pass verlassen und seine Truppen zu einem Crannóg am Lough Lurcan zurückgezogen hatte. ###>Mountjoy retired to Dundalk - on either the 8th or 9th of October - but on the 14th word reached the English camp that O'Neill had abandoned the Pass and retreated to a crannog stronghold at Lough Lurcan.