6 officers 10 lorries of British troops (c. 100 men) arrived later
Casualties and losses
2 wounded
6 killed Several wounded
1 magistrate killed by IRA (in fact unrelated) 5 civilians killed 16 houses/shops destroyed in reprisal
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The Rineen ambush was an ambush carried out by the Mid Clare Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 22 September 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. The attack took place at Drummin Hill in the townland of Drummin, near the hamlet of Rineen (or Rinneen), County Clare.
The IRA's Mid-Clare Brigade attacked a Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) lorry, killing six officers. Shortly afterwards, the IRA encountered ten lorry-loads of British Army soldiers, who had been sent out on a separate patrol looking for a missing magistrate. However, the IRA held off this attack long enough to flee the scene in an orderly retreat and sustained only two wounded.[1]
In reprisal for the ambush, the RIC Auxiliaries and British military raided three local villages, killed five civilians and burnt 16 houses and shops in the surrounding area.[2][3]
^"Raids and Ambushes - Rineen Ambush (Memoirs of Andrew O'Donoghue)". Clare Library. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
^Padraig O Ruairc, Blood on the Banner, The Republican Struggle in Clare, Mercier, 2009, p169-171
^Ernie O'Malley, Raids and Rallies, Anvil 1982, p77-87
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