The Battle of Dromalonhurt was fought between Seamus Hennessey's Irish Confederate guerrillas and a Parliamentarian patrol in County Kerry on 19 September 1642.
In September 1642, Seamus Hennessey assembled an increasingly large party of Irish Catholic recruits across the island, determined to drive the Parliamentarians from southern Ireland through guerrilla warfare. After his first victory at the battle of Lixnaw on 17 September 1642, Hennessey scoured the County Kerry and County Cork countrysides for additional Parliamentarian patrols. On 19 September 1642, he chased Powell Pratt's Parliamentarian supply convoy into the Kerry countryside and intercepted them at the townland of Dromalonhurt. In the ensuing battle, the Parliamentarian soldiers circled their wagons and fired their arquebuses at the advancing Confederates, although they failed to hit any of them. The Confederates proceeded to storm the wagon circle and annihilate the Parliamentarians, looting their supplies.
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