[1] The battle was a small affair in the number of knights involved, but was still significant because it ended the career of the popular Richard Marshal.

The conflict between Richard Marshal and Henry III went back several years, and centred particularly on the earl's discontent with the influence that certain foreigners held over the king.

[2] In March 1234, a truce was reached between the king and Marshal, the condition of which was the removal of Peter des Roches from court.

[5] Richard Marshal had become highly popular in England because of his fight against foreign influence at court, and for this reason the accounts of the battle were idealised and not necessarily reliable.

[3] The Curragh plains were later used as a location to recreate the Battle of Stirling Bridge in Mel Gibson's 1995 film Braveheart.