Ireland – Oliver Cromwell in Ireland 1650 – the battle of Scarrifholis. An Act for the setting apart a day of publique thanksgiving to be kept on Friday the twenty sixth of this instant July together with a declaration & narrative expressing the grounds and reasons thereof...’ printed Act of Parliament dated 1650. An important document in Irish history. The battle of Scarrifholis was fought in Donegal on June 21st 1650 during the Irish Confederate Wars when a force under the command of Charles Coote, composed of divisions of the New Model Army and local British protestant settlers faced the Irish Catholic Ulster Army. It resulted in the annihilation of the Irish army and the loss of most of its weapons and supplies, contributing towards the Cromwellian conquest in Ireland.