Site of the Derryard checkpoint attack (13 Dec 1989)

The attack on Derryard checkpoint was a large guerrilla assault carried out on 13 December 1989 by a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit against a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint. It occurred near the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland at Derryard, near Rosslea, County Fermanagh. The IRA withdrew after the rapid reaction of a British Army patrol. A large bomb left by the attackers also failed to detonate. The action left two British Army soldiers dead and one seriously wounded.