Qualla: Siege of Kilkenny https://qualla.com/siege-of-kilkenny en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/g/siege-of-kilkenny-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Siege of Kilkenny https://qualla.com/siege-of-kilkenny Siege of Kilkenny: Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-kilkenny/ Photo credit After Samuel Cooper, Public domain. Captain Tickle was an Irish officer in the garrison defending Kilkenny in March 1650, and he had been bribed. The plan was simple: at an appointed hour he would open one of the city gates and let Cromwell's army inside. When the Parliamentarians arrived at the gate at the agreed time, they found it shut and the defenders alert behind it. Tickle had been caught - his correspondence intercepted - and hanged. The walls held. Cromwell would have to take Kilkenny the old way, with cannon and assault. It would take him six days, and when it was over the surrendered garrison would march out with their colours flying and Cromwell would tell them, with grudging respect, that they had killed more of his men than Drogheda did.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/g/siege-of-kilkenny-wp/gc6g-siege-of-kilkenny-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Kilkenny: The city he had to take https://qualla.com/siege-of-kilkenny/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Kilkenny in 1650 was the capital of Confederate Ireland and the most fortified town in the country south of Dublin. It was three walled districts, not one: High Town clustered around Kilkenny Castle on the east bank of the Nore; Irish Town to the north of High Town with its own w...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/g/siege-of-kilkenny-wp/gc6g-siege-of-kilkenny-the-city-he-had-to-take.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Kilkenny: What the defender had https://qualla.com/siege-of-kilkenny/ Photo credit Jorge1767, Public domain. Sir Walter Butler had been placed in command of the Royalist forces in Kilkenny after the Duke of Ormond and the Confederate Commissioners fled west to Limerick. Plague had reduced his garrison from 1,200 men to roughly 300 over the winter. Three hundred men to defend three walle...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/g/siege-of-kilkenny-wp/gc6g-siege-of-kilkenny-what-the-defender-had.mp3 0:06 3 full Siege of Kilkenny: 22-25 March: the first assaults https://qualla.com/siege-of-kilkenny/ Photo credit Jorge1767, Public domain. Cromwell arrived at Kilkenny on 22 March 1650 and immediately offered surrender terms. Butler rejected them the next day. On 24 March Cromwell moved his guns into position; on the morning of the 25th he opened fire on the southern wall of High Town from a battery placed in the gr...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/g/siege-of-kilkenny-wp/gc6g-siege-of-kilkenny-22-25-march-the-first-assaults.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Kilkenny: The second front https://qualla.com/siege-of-kilkenny/ Photo credit Jorge1767, Public domain. Later on 25 March, Cromwell attacked the other walled districts. A combined infantry and cavalry force assaulted Dean's Gate in Irish Town. This time the citizen militia gave way; the Parliamentarians took Irish Town quickly. Across the river, another detachment forced its way in...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/g/siege-of-kilkenny-wp/gc6g-siege-of-kilkenny-the-second-front.mp3 0:06 5 full Siege of Kilkenny: 27-28 March: surrender on honourable terms https://qualla.com/siege-of-kilkenny/ Photo credit Jorge1767, Public domain. On the morning of 27 March, Cromwell's guns in Irish Town opened a second breach in the High Town wall near the Franciscan Abbey. General Henry Ireton arrived that same morning with a column of 1,500 fresh Parliamentarian troops. Butler now had two breaches to defend and a relief...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/g/siege-of-kilkenny-wp/gc6g-siege-of-kilkenny-27-28-march-surrender-on-honourable-terms.mp3 0:06 6 full Siege of Kilkenny: What Cromwell said https://qualla.com/siege-of-kilkenny/ Photo credit Jorge1767, Public domain. When the garrison marched out, Cromwell - by all accounts - complimented them for their gallantry. He told them his losses at Kilkenny had been higher than at Drogheda, where his army had taken some 3,500 of the town in a sack that has haunted Irish memory ever since. Casualty fi...

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