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A memorial stone honouring fallen soldiers in the largely-forgotten Battle of Littleferry has been dedicated in a ceremony in Golspie

Submitting... The man behind the project, Littleferry resident and former Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Major General Patrick Marriott, is also writing the first historical documentation of the battle, using a large range of primary and secondary sources dating all the way back to the 1740s. Maj Gen Marriott became curious about the history during last year’s lockdown when he was regularly cycling past the area where the battle was thought to have taken place. After cons...