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.

They took up position behind a low wall which ran on the brink of an eighty-foot-high rock face on the side of Sheemore.

[1] The British officer died the following day (Saturday 5 March 1921), and some people reportedly left the area for fear of reprisals.

[1] The 'female searcher' (Nurse Alice Grey or Gray), who was a member of the ambushed convoy, was recognised by the British authorities for her role in the incident.