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 | | The battle of Tyrrell's Pass is described by MacGeoghegan, and mentioned by Leland and other historians; it was fought in the summer of 1597, at a place afterwards called "Tyrrell's Pass," now the name of a town in the barony of Fartullagh, in the county Westmeath. |
 | | Tyrrell was encamped, with his small force, in Fartullagh, and was joined in command by young O'Connor Faley of the King's County. |
 | | Tyrrell then rushed on them in front, and the English being thus hemmed in on both sides, were cut to pieces; the carnage being so great that out of their entire force only one soldier escaped the slaughter, who having fled through a marsh carried the news to Mullingar. |
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