* Just outside the town of Kells on the road to Oldcastle is the hill of Lloyd, named after Thomas Lloyd of Enniskillen, who camped a large Williamite army here during the wars of 1688-91 against the Jacobites.

Obtaining promotion in the army, he served with distinction in the Williamite war in Ireland and in the Netherlands.

The Jacobite soldiers also had the option of joining the Williamite army.

The Flight of the Wild Geese refers to the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on October 3, 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland.

Although this battle was a defeat for the Williamite army, the Jacobite commander, Viscount Dundee ( Bonnie Dundee ), was killed by a volley fired by Leven's Regiment, bringing an end to James II's attempt to save his throne.

A stone bridge across the Shannon was erected in 1685, and a Williamite army advancing from Birr in 1690 attempted to break it down but abandoned the attempt as too risky in consequence of the presence of Sarsfield's Army on the Connacht side.

Frederick Schomberg was second in command of William's army at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland.

The city, a Williamite stronghold, was besieged by a Jacobite army until it was relieved by Royal Navy ships.

Many of the name appear in the ranks of the Confederate Catholics and, later in the seventeenth century, in Catholic King James II of England's army during the Williamite war in Ireland ( 1688-1691 ).

It was used as a military site for the Williamite army during the war between the Catholic King James and the Protestant William of Orange.

Throughout the campaign, the rapparees caused major logistical problems to the Williamite army, raiding their rear areas and killing their soldiers and supporters.

During the Williamite war in Ireland, in 1690, the Catholic King James stationed his Jacobite army just to the west of Santry, near Balcurris ( now within Ballymun ) before setting out to oppose William of Orange at the battle of the Boyne.

After this, James attempted to retake the throne by force in the Williamite War, and was finally defeated by William at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

** Williamite War in Ireland: Siege of Derry: James II arrives at the gates of Derry and asks for its surrender, which is refused by the Protestant defenders.

The regiment served in the Williamite War, fighting at the Battles of the Boyne and Aughrim.

Many Williamite troops at the Boyne, including their very effective irregular cavalry, were Protestants from Ulster, who called themselves " Inniskillingers " and were referred to by contemporaries as " Scots-Irish ".

The Williamite forces went on a long detour march which, later in the day, almost saw them cut off the Jacobite retreat at the village of Naul.

In the County Development Plan for 2000, Meath County Council rezoned the land at the eastern edge of Oldbridge, at the site of the main Williamite crossing, to residential status.

In the Williamite war in Ireland ( 1689 – 91 ), the Jacobites also retreated behind the Shannon after their defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

It was during the 1690 siege that the infamous destruction of the Williamite guns at Ballyneety, near Pallasgreen was carried out by General Patrick Sarsfield.

In Northern Ireland, bonfires are lit on Halloween, October 31. and each 11 July, bonfires are lit by many Protestant communities to celebrate the victory of Williamite forces at the Battle of the Boyne, which took place on 12 July 1690.

Nevertheless he subsequently joined the forces of William of Orange, by whom he was made colonel of the Queen's Troop of Horse Guards on 20 April 1689, and commanded the Queen's Troop at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland.

Speaking at Maryborough, now Port Laoise, on the 16 August 1914, he addressed a 2, 000 strong assembly of Irish Volunteers, some armed, and according to the report in the Irish Times stated, " recently, I took the liberty of saying in the English Parliament that, for the first time in the history of the connection between England and Ireland, it was safe to-day for England to withdraw her armed troops from our country and that the sons of Ireland themselves, North and South, Catholic and Protestant, and whatever the origin of their race might have been – Williamite, Cromwellian, or old Celtic – standing shoulder to shoulder, would defend the good order and peace of Ireland, and defend her shores against any foreign foe.

In fact the city was heavily garrisoned by Williamite forces at the time which may better explain why the gates were barred to him.

His greatest victory was at the Battle of Killiecrankie, later that year against much greater Williamite forces led by General Hugh Mackay.

He accompanied William III to England in 1688, and during the Williamite war in Ireland he took part in the Siege of Carrickfergus and the Battle of the Boyne, and was wounded at the Siege of Limerick ( 1690 ).

The decisive victory of the Williamite forces at the battle of the Boyne in 1690, and the battle of Aughrim in 1691, confirmed the new Protestant monarchy and finally secured New English interests in Ireland.

The bridge of 1685 featured prominently in the Williamite War in Ireland of the 17th century and was used by Patrick Sarsfield to retreat to Connacht after his ambush of a Williamite convoy at Ballyneety in Co.

Nevertheless, a Jacobite force under Richard Hamilton routed a Protestant Williamite militia in an encounter at Dromore, County Down ( known as the Break of Dromore ) on 14 March 1689 and occupied eastern Ulster.

The Highland charge routed a much larger Williamite force at the Battle of Killiecrankie on 27 July 1689.

* Thomas Smiley ( c1660-1689 ), Williamite Defender at the Siege of Derry

The Williamite troops, mainly English and Scots, had to take each line of trenches, only to find that the Irish had fallen back and were firing at them from the next line.

However the Williamite death toll released by them at the time was only 600 and they claimed to have killed fully 7, 000 Jacobites.

The Orange Order flag, also known as the Boyne Standard, consisting of an orange background with a St George's Cross and a purple star which was the symbol of Williamite forces.

The Battle of the Boyne, a major battle in Irish history, took place along the Boyne near Drogheda in 1690 during the Williamite war in Ireland.

It mentions real events such as the death of the Duke of Schomberg, William of Orange's leading the Eniskillen cavalry ( Ulster Protestant settlers ) across the river Boyne, and the Williamite infantry's repulse of the Jacobite cavalry's counter-attacks.

He fought in the Franco-Dutch War, then played a crucial role in the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland and finally commanded the British troops deployed to Portugal during the War of the Spanish Succession.

The iconic Williamite victories of the Siege of Derry and the Battle of the Boyne are still celebrated by the Unionist community in Northern Ireland today.

The regiment accompanied William to Ireland in the following year, fighting in the decisive Williamite victories at the Boyne and Cork.

The regiment fought in the Williamite war in Ireland, seeing action at the Battle of the Boyne and Battle of Aughrim, as well as the siege of Limerick ( 1690 ), and siege of Limerick ( 1691 ) and siege of Athlone.

However, this was followed by the protracted Williamite War in Ireland and Dundee's rising in Scotland.

His father, John Butler Yeats ( 1839 – 1922 ), was a descendant of Jervis Yeats, a Williamite soldier and linen merchant who died in 1712.

The Treaty of Limerick ended the Williamite war in Ireland which was fought between supporters of the Catholic King James II ( Jacobites ) and the Protestant King William of Orange ( Williamites ).

During the Williamite War in Ireland ( 1689 – 1691 ) the city was to endure two further sieges, one in 1690 and another in 1691.

By 1700, after further Irish defeat in the Williamite War, the aristocracy in Ireland was dominated by Protestant families who owed allegiance to the British Crown.

He served in the campaign to put down the Monmouth Rebellion, in the Williamite War in Ireland, in the Nine Years ' War and in the War of the Spanish Succession but was accused of treason and went into exile after the Jacobite rising of 1715.

It surrendered to Ireton in 1651 during the Cromwellian period and was burned by Sarsfield in 1688 during the Williamite Wars.

The 17th Knight, Gerald FitzGerald, was a Member for Limerick County in the Irish Patriot Parliament of 1689, called by James II during the Williamite war.

Their first child, Moroni Abel was born there in 1849, and in 1850, per the 1850 Census of Cincinnati, they were boarding Henry Nisonger and his family ; Nisonger was an Apostle in the schismatic Williamite Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which recognized William Smith, the only surviving brother of Joseph Smith as its prophet.

The Williamite war in Ireland ( 1689 – 91 ) was fought between Jacobites who supported the restoration of the Catholic James II to the throne of England and Williamites who supported the Protestant William of Orange.

Martyn was descended from Richard Óge Martyn ( c. 1604-1648 ), a leading Irish Confederate, and Oliver Óge Martyn ( c. 1630-c. 1709 ), a Jacobite who fought in the Williamite War in Ireland.

The town was not caught up in the Williamite Wars ( 1689-91 ) and though orders were issued to have the castle demolished to prevent it falling into rebel hands in the future they were later rescinded.

It was formed in May 1690 when five Jacobite regiments were sent from Ireland to France in return for a larger force of French infantry who were sent to fight in the Williamite war in Ireland.