The Pickardstown ambush, an action in the Irish War of Independence, took place near the town of Tramore, County Waterford on the night of 6 January 1921.
An attack was made on the RIC barracks in Tramore which lured reinforcements from the British military garrison in Waterford City.
Four Crossley tenders were quickly dispatched with forty troops on board.
However, the ambush had been badly planned with the result that the British troops were able to make a determined counterattack, ultimately killing two IRA men - Michael McGrath (the first Waterford City Volunteer killed in the Irish War of Independence) and Thomas O'Brien and wounding two more.
In later years, local GAA fields were named after the two dead IRA men.