The appearance of the camp showed that the money voted by the English Parliament had not been spared.

The uniforms were new; the ranks were one blaze of scarlet; and the train of artillery was such as had never before been seen in Ireland.

[87] On the sixth of June Ginkell moved his head quarters from Mullingar.

On the seventh he reached Ballymore.

At Ballymore, on a peninsula almost surrounded by something between a swamp and a lake, stood an ancient fortress, which had recently been fortified under Sarsfield's direction, and which was defended by above a thousand men.