Regional980 CE

Battle of Tara

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Ireland

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Tara (980), part of the Later Viking Raids on Britain. Ireland defeated Danish Dublin.

Belligerents2

Irish forces
Danish Dublin

Conflict graph

PART OFViking Invasions of England

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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