The Clonfin Ambush was an ambush carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 1 February 1921, during the Irish War of Independence. It took place in the townland of Clonfin (or Cloonfin) between Ballinalee and Granard in County Longford. Four members of the Auxiliary Division were killed and eight were wounded in the ambush.
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