Battle of Newtownbutler

Part of the Williamite War in Ireland

Date	31 July 1689
Location	near Newtownbutler, Ireland
Result	Williamite victory

Belligerents

Jacobite forces

Williamite forces

Commanders and leaders

Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel

Colonel William Wolseley

Strength

~3,000Justin Cole

2,000

Casualties and losses

~2,000 killed, McCarthy and 400 officers captured

low

Coordinates: 54°11′02″N 7°21′58″W / 54.184°N 7.366°W / 54.184; -7.366

The Battle of Newtownbutler took place near Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Ireland, now in Northern Ireland, in 1689 and was part of the Williamite War in Ireland between the forces of William III and Mary II and those of King James II.

In Enniskillen, armed Williamite civilians drawn from the local Protestant population organised a formidable irregular military force. The armed civilians of Enniskillen ignored an order from Robert Lundy that they should fall back to Londonderry and instead launched guerrilla attacks against the Jacobites. Operating with Enniskillen as a base, they carried out raids against the Jacobite forces in Connacht and Ulster plundering Trillick, burning Augher Castle and raiding Clones.

A poorly trained Jacobite army of about 3,000 men, led by Justin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel, advanced on them from Dublin. McCarthy's men were mostly raw recruits, raised from in and around his own lands in south Munster. On 28 July 1689, McCarthy's force encamped near Enniskillen and bombarded the Williamite outpost of Crom castle to the south east of Enniskillen. Crom (pronounced Crumb) Castle is almost 20 miles from Enniskillen by road and about 5 miles from Newtownbutler.

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