Tucked away in the peaceful townland of Grange Lower in the Barony of O'Neiland is the historical 'Diamond', sometimes called a hamlet, occasionally rising in prestige to merit the title of village in historical memoirs.

Situated around a crossroads in the beautiful orchard county four miles north of Loughgall, at one time it consisted of as many as cottages and cotter houses of single storey, mud wall construction with flax or wheat straw thatch being the only roofing material.

The Winter Family were tenant farmers in the area from as early as 1665 when they were recorded in Ballyhagen Quaker records. John Rocque's map of 1760 shows a house on the site of Geoffrey and his mother Hilda's present farmyard, located approximately 200 yards from the crossroads. At this period no other buildings around the crossroads were shown on Rocque's Map. By 1795 there were a number of Winter families settled around the Hamlet. Dan winter and his sons owned the field of action which lies in the valley between Diamond Hill and Faughart Fort, and it is known that the defenders swept down the flank of the hill from Faughart Fort, crossed the march drain directly in front of Winter's farm house which had only one window broken in the Battle, and then rushed on to the crossroads.

One could do worse than to look at the detail of the Battle as outlined by the late W.H. Wolsey a renowned local Orange historian. What follows in reprinted from a Booklet published in 1923, and compiled by Wolsey.