What the records say
- When
- 1079
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 54.32° N, 4.41° W
- Description
- battle at Ramsey, Isle of Man in 1079
Battle of Skyhill
Battle at Ramsey, Isle of Man in 1079
The Battle of Scacafell or Skyhill took place about one mile (1.5 km) west of Ramsey, Isle of Man in 1079. This was during the third and final time that the Norse-Gael warrior Godred Crovan had invaded the island, finally taking it from the ruling king Fingal Godredson.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Битва при Скайхилле между мэнской армией и норвежскими силами Годреда I Крована”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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