15ft. high, made of stainless steel and bronze, the "Gaelic Chieftain" stands on an elevated site in the Curlew Mountains overlooking Lough Key, Co. Roscommon. Made in 1999 it marks the 400th anniversary of the Battle of the Curlews
The Battle of Curlew Pass was fought on the 15th of August 1599, during the campaign of the Earl of Essex in the Nine Years war, between an English force under Sir Conyers Clifford and a rebel Irish force led by Red Hugh O'Donnell. The English were ambushed while marching through a pass in the Curlew Mountains, near the town of Boyle, in north western Ireland, and routed with heavy casualties.
The statue here is in honour of Red Hugh O'Donnell chieftain of Tír Chonaill ,Co. Donegal,who with O'Neill Earl of Tyrone were the great Earls of Ulster
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