Sheemore ambush

Sheemore ambush
	Part of the Irish War of Independence
Date	4 March 1921
Location	Sheemore, County Leitrim53°59′31″N 7°59′53″W / 53.992°N 7.998°W
Result	IRA victory
Belligerents
Irish Republican Army; (South Leitrim Brigade)	British Army; Royal Irish Constabulary
Commanders and leaders
Seán Mitchel	; Lieutenant Eric Chilver Wilson
Strength
7 volunteers	30–40
Casualties and losses
none	1 confirmed killed; 6 wounded
	class=notpageimage\| Location within island of Ireland

The Sheemore ambush was an ambush carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 4 March 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. It took place at Sheemore near Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim.

The ambush was carried out by the IRA's South Leitrim Brigade on a British Army and Auxiliary Division convoy.^[2] The British force suffered casualties and admitted one fatality, a captain in the Bedfordshire Regiment, although some local sources claimed several more were killed.^[3] The Black and Tans later undertook reprisals in Carrick-on-Shannon, including burning the Temperance Hall in Gowel.^[4]

^ Cite error: The named reference cairogang was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Ernie O'Malley (2007). Cormac K.H. O'Malley (ed.). Rising Out: Seán Connolly of Longford. UCD Press. pp. 149–152, 172. Pages 149-152 describe the Sheemore Ambush. Page 172 (Appendix I) lists the participants in the Sheemore ambush as the 2nd section of the South Leitrim flying column. Joe Nangle's name is wrongly listed as Nagle
^ O'Halpin, Eunan & Ó Corráin, Daithí (2020), The Dead of the Irish Revolution, Yale University Press, pg. 323.
^ O’Flynn, Micheal (2011). Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 978-1443832502. In March 1921, Lieutenant Wilson of the Bedfordshire Regiment was killed in an ambush at Sheemore Mountain, near Carrick-on-Shannon (Freeman's Journal, 1921). As a reprisal, the Black and Tans burned out the Temperance Hall in Gowel

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[malley-2] Ernie O'Malley (2007). Cormac K.H. O'Malley (ed.). Rising Out: Seán Connolly of Longford. UCD Press. pp. 149–152, 172. Pages 149-152 describe the Sheemore Ambush. Page 172 (Appendix I) lists the participants in the Sheemore ambush as the 2nd section of the South Leitrim flying column. Joe Nangle's name is wrongly listed as Nagle

[3] O'Halpin, Eunan & Ó Corráin, Daithí (2020), The Dead of the Irish Revolution, Yale University Press, pg. 323.

[4] O’Flynn, Micheal (2011). Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 978-1443832502. In March 1921, Lieutenant Wilson of the Bedfordshire Regiment was killed in an ambush at Sheemore Mountain, near Carrick-on-Shannon (Freeman's Journal, 1921). As a reprisal, the Black and Tans burned out the Temperance Hall in Gowel

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