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Loughbrickland ( ; )〔(Placenames Database of Ireland )〕 is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland, south of Banbridge on the main Belfast to Dublin road. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 681. Loughbrickland is within the Banbridge District. ==History== Loughbrickland may have been the site where the Three Collas fought the Battle of Achadh Leithdheirg in 331 AD, defeating the forces of Fergus Foga, king of Ulster.〔http://www.lisburn.com/books/dromore-diocese/parish-aghaderg.html〕〔http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=17280〕 The victors killed Fergus and burned Emain Macha, the famous palace of the Ultonian kings, to the ground. The sovereignty of Ulster thus passed from the race of Ir to the race of Heremon. John O'Mahony the gaelic scholar states that the battle site was commemorated by "a huge Carn of loose stones near Loughbrickland". Samuel Lewis (publisher) in his "Topographical dictionary of Ireland - County Down" states - "''At Drummillar is a vast cairn of loose stones, 60 feet high and 226 feet in circumference.''"〔http://www.lecalehistory.co.uk/lewisA.htm〕 This Carn, known as Carn Cochy in the Annals of the Four Masters, stood seventy feet high but appears to have been destroyed when the Scarva to Banbridge railway line was constructed in 1859. What appears to be the Carn can be seen on the image of a 1778 map as a huge pile of stones to the left of the Loughbrickland to Scarva Road, about 2 miles outside Loughbrickland. Three seventh-century saints are associated with the area: Nasad, Beoan and Mellan, hermits of Down. The three are recorded in the ''Martyrology of Aengus'' and are mentioned as having been interred "in one church: Tamlacht Menand on Loch Bricrend in Iveagh in Ulidia". The Annals of the Four Masters records two of these saints: "Beoan, Bishop and Mellan of Tamlacht Menan on Loch Bricrenn". These references suggest the existence of an early church in the townland of Meenan, around two miles from modern Loughbrickland. Loughbrickland was a major seat of the Magennises of Iveagh. The Magennis castle was believed to be on the shores of Loughbrickland Lake, although they also inhabited the crannog on the lake as late as the seventeenth century. The Magennises were succeeded in the Loughbrickland area by Sir Marmaduke Whitechurch. Probably the most prominent developer of the district, Whitechurch established villages, churches, and markets that formed the basis of the local infrastructure. Sir Marmaduke built his castle by the lake, which was subsequently dismantled by Cromwell's army. The castle remained in ruins until 1812, when they were removed and a dwelling-house was erected on its site. Its exact location has never been accurately identified; possible sites range from the site of the Magennis castle to where the old Aghaderg School now stands to where the Church of Ireland built their rectory in 1801. In 1690, William III camped near Loughbrickland with his army from the 14th to the 25th of June, on his march to the Boyne. Tradition has it that William stayed overnight at Bovennet house, and mounted his horse from a stone on the corner of the Poyntzpass Road. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Loughbrickland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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