The Troubles , which impacted on Northern Ireland and border areas of the Republic from 1969 onwards saw the area remain relatively quiet but with frequent British Army patrols , checkpoints , and Helicopter activity . The most significant event relating directly to the townland which was to occur during the troubles was probably an attack on a military helicopter en route from Crossmaglen to Bessbrook in June 1988 , and which Harden records as follows : The impact of the Troubles lessened during the early stages of the Northern Ireland Peace Process , and especially following the demilitarisation of the South-Armagh region . The Troubles are widely seen to have ended with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement , but not definitively so until the deadly Omagh bombing of August that year , which saw 29 people killed . A minor connection between the area and that tragedy was that one of the two telephone warnings made by the Real IRA with respect to that attack was made from the BT telephone box at McGeough 's crossroads in the south of the district , where the Aughanduff Road meets that running from Newry to Crossmaglen
Omagh bombing
Omagh bombing
Aughanduff