Attack on UDR Clogher barracks

Attack on UDR Clogher barracks
Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner

Ferret armoured car
Date2 May 1974
Location
The Deanery, near Clogher, County Tyrone
54°23′58.28″N 7°11′42″W / 54.3995222°N 7.19500°W / 54.3995222; -7.19500
Result
  • IRA attack repelled
  • UDR barracks badly damaged
  • Successful IRA getaway
Belligerents

Provisional IRA

 United Kingdom

Commanders and leaders
Kevin McKenna Harry Baxter
Strength
40 volunteers
9 hijacked vehicles
improvised mortars		 20 soldiers
armoured personnel carriers
Casualties and losses
None 1 killed
1 wounded
Attack on UDR Clogher barracks is located in Northern Ireland
Attack on UDR Clogher barracks
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Location within Northern Ireland

On 2 May 1974 the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked a British Army base manned by the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) near the Northern Ireland–Republic of Ireland border at Clogher, County Tyrone. The IRA unit engaged the small base with automatic weapons, rockets and improvised mortars. Ferret armoured cars were deployed to the scene and a fierce firefight erupted. The IRA withdrew behind the border with the Republic. The assault on the outpost killed greenfinch Eva Martin and wounded another UDR soldier.