ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 ...

19.I said, "That is bad". I was very worried becauseI thought it might be information they had got. after theTruce, however, when we took over Pallas Barrack from theTans, I enquired of Sergeant Healy, the man that we savedthat night, and he said, "Ah! No! There was a Tan goingaround. There was an air slit in the wall of the vault andhe saw the box in there, through the slit. They burst inthe iron door then and got them".After leaving Wixted, Carroll and I went on anyway toDrumkeen, and we called into the hotel. Just as we werein the hotel, having a drink, a man by the name of English,a farmer who lived just at the very cross-roads where thecontemplated ambush was to take place, was in the bar. Hesaid, "Dick, you're the very man I wanted to see. I havenot slept for the last week. I heard there was a crowdaround my place a week ago, looking around there, and I wastold there was going to be an ambush". This alarmed mesomewhat, as it was beginning to appear as if our plans werepublic property. I said, "John, that is foolish becauseDrumkeen is in my area and, if there was going to be anambush there, I would know about it". Re said, "Could yougive me a guarantee that there is not going to be an ambushthere?". I said, "As far as I know, there is not, and youcan sleep sound from this on". So I re-assured him, and.Carroll and I went out. I was not feeling too comfortableafter this information, we met Jimmy Humphreys just outsidethe hotel, and we drove on to Guerin's in Kiltealy.Hannigan was there and also Bill Hayes, I think Jack McCarthyand David Guerin.We had arranged at that time to attack them in themorning when they were going from Pallas toFedamore.I suggested toHannigan, however, that we would attack them