Baron Mountjoy

On 5th June 1798 the Battle of New Ross was fought at New Ross between the Irish Republican insurgents called the United Irishmen and British Crown forces composed of regular soldiers, militia and yeomanry. The attack on the town of New Ross on the River Barrow, was an attempt by the recently victorious rebels to break out of county Wexford across the river Barrow and to spread the rebellion into county Kilkenny and the outlying province of Munster.

Luke Gardiner 1st Viscount Mountjoy [aged 53] was killed. His son Charles [aged 16] succeeded 2nd Viscount Mountjoy, 2nd Baron Mountjoy.