The Jacobite success at Bandon helped suppress any chance of a general Munster uprising against the rule of James II similar to that which occurred in Ulster the same year.
Bandon was a historic centre of Protestants, dating back to the Plantation of Munster in the Elizabethan era and was a natural focus of dissent against James's rule.
Fearing a potential outbreak of rebellion in Bandon would occur, the government sent a detachment of the Irish Army under Captain Daniel O'Neill to take the town.
[2] Having received word about the growing rebellion in the county, Tyrconnell in Dublin had already dispatched six companies of infantry under Justin McCarthy, an experienced Irish Catholic soldier.
Instead of immediately assaulting Bandon, McCarthy had first seized nearby Cork, another major centre of Protestants in the south of the country, and clamped down on other potential dissidents.
The arrival of large-scale reinforcements under Marshal Schomberg and King William reversed the tide, and Dublin was captured following the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.