The Battle of Aughrim - A meditation on landscape, violence and identity.

The battle of Aughrim was fought on the 12th July, 1691 near the village of the same name in Co. Galway, Ireland, between the Irish Jacobite army of James II, and the combined armies of William of Orange. 40,000 soldiers took part in this decisive encounter. More men were killed here than on all the D-Day beaches combined.