Battle of Auldearn

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Battle of Auldearn
Part of Scottish Civil War
Date 9 May 1645 Location Auldearn, east of Nairn grid reference NH 916 554[1] 57°34′35″N 3°48′43″W / 57.57639°N 3.81194°W / 57.57639; -3.81194 Result Royalist/Irish Victory
Belligerents
Royalists Irish Brigade	Covenanters
Commanders and leaders
Lord Montrose Alexander MacDonald Manus O'Cahan	Sir John Urry Earl of Seaforth
Strength
1,300 foot 250 cavalry	3,600 foot 300 cavalry
Casualties and losses
Light	1,500
Registered battlefield
Designated	21 March 2011
Reference no.	BTL3
Auldearn class=notpageimage| Location within Scotland

The Battle of Auldearn was an engagement of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It took place on 9 May 1645, in and around the village of Auldearn in Nairnshire. It resulted in a victory for the royalists, led by the Marquess of Montrose and Alasdair MacColla, over Sir John Urry and an army raised by the Covenanter-dominated Scottish government.

The pibroch Blár Allt Earrann commemorates the battle. The battlefield has been included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland and is protected by Historic Scotland under the Historic Environment (Amendment) Act 2011.^[2]