Timeline of The Irish Confederate Wars - 1644

1644

• The Confederates launch an offensive of 6,000 men, led by Castlehaven, against the Scots in Ulster, but it proves inconclusive.

• A foray by the Scots into Confederate territory in County Longford is turned back at the bridge at Finnea by a force under

Myles "the Slasher" O'Reilly.

• The Confederates send 1,500 troops to Scotland under Alasdair MacColla to fight on the Royalist side there.

• The English Royalist troops in Cork defect to the Parliament.

• The Confederates take Bandon