Attack on UDR Clogher barracks

Attack on UDR Clogher barracks
	Part of the Troubles and Operation Banner
	; Ferret armoured car
Date	2 May 1974
Location	The Deanery, near Clogher, County Tyrone54°23′58.28″N 7°11′42″W
Result	IRA attack repelled; UDR barracks badly damaged; Successful IRA getaway;
Belligerents
Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade;	United Kingdom British Army;
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
	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.

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