We did wonder what the former owners of Farnham, the Maxwell family, would make of a Wine bar named after Jacobites- there is an Orange Hall, now a private residence, on the grounds!

The regiment was renamed the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons in 1751 and went on to feature in many conflicts across the world, including the War of the Austrian Succession, Napoleonic War, The Boer War, and on the Western Front. The museum in Enniskillen town is well worth a visit!

George Storey, writing after the battle, reckoned that 7000 Jacobites were killed, and that the bodies of the slain “looked like a great flock of sheep ” on the side of Kilcommadan Hill.

The spot where St. Ruth supposedly fell is marked by a bush, imaginatively named "St. Ruth's Bush"- pictured above #AughrimLive

St. Ruth's body is supposedly covered with a cloak, but after that, who knows? There is a tantalising piece of folklore that says his body was buried in Loughrea, and his goods and his horse were sent back to France but were intercepted en route.

As he moves, an artillery piece fires a fateful shot that takes the Marquis’ head clean off!

Whether this is true, or the men were ill supplied, or keeping their heads down from the Williamite fire, something is holding the men back at the castle #AughrimLive

All this action along the causeway hasn't gone unnoticed, and the fire from the Castle ruins (held by Burke's regiment) is proving ineffective. It goes they had been supplied with French muskets which had too small a muzzle for the English ball (or vice versa) meaning they were unable to reload.

Losing patience with his men, who are understandably reluctant to cross, Mackay mounts his horse and rides across. Thrown from his horse, Mackay remounts, and Ruvigny crosses under heavy fire followed by Oxford's, Langston's, Byerly's, Leveson's, and Wynne's #AughrimLive

Narrow enough that only 2 horses can ride abreast, beset by bog, and with the castle ruins defending the very top, it’s not a ride any man would want to make, but as it stands there is currently no hope of a Williamite victory unless the causeway can be forced.

Lured in, man by man, hedgerow by hedgerow, the Williamite troops are drawn into the Jacobite trap. At some point around now Earle and Herbert are taken prisoner.

Under heavy fire, the four battalions soon realise that the hedgerows are lined with musketeers. Imagine their horror as they notice the glint of gun barrels in the hedges. As they march forward, the Jacobite forces fall back to the next row of hedges, maintaining their fire.

This journey is hellish; in heavy woollen coats, carrying a stone of musket alone - never mind the rest of their kit- the men have slowly crossed the bog up to their waists in mud and water #AughrimLive