There is also a small rural parish in western Limerick with the same name . At least 10 people in and around Cappagh lost their lives during the Troubles , according to CAIN website . Three were members of the Provisional IRA , three were members of the RUC , two Catholic civilians , one former member of the UDR , and a Protestant civilian . The three IRA Volunteers and one of the Catholic residents were killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force in a shooting outside a local bar on 3 March 1991 . The British army had saturated the area in the week before the attack but had mysteriously withrawn from the area the morning of the attack . A week before the attack heavily armed RUC came into the pub , ID 'd locals and made a detailed plan of the building before they left . A civilian had been shot and killed in the same spot in January 1974 by loyalist assailants . The rest of the victims were killed by members of the Provisional IRA . The village , famed as being a Republican stronghold , was also the scene of another two significant events in the early 1990s . On 24 March 1990 , there was a gun battle between an IRA unit and undercover British security forces when a civilian-type vehicle driven by an undercover agent was fired on by IRA volunteers without warning , according to Archie Hamilton , then Minister of State for the Armed Forces . Republican sources claimed a SAS ambush was thwarted and at least two undercover soldiers in the car were killed . Later in the week it was claimed that two British soldiers were killed in a car crash after the car they were traveling in crashed into a motorway bridge in Germany
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1991 Cappagh killings
Cappagh, County Tyrone