The Troubles in Castlewellan
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The Troubles in Castlewellan recounts incidents during, and the effects of, The Troubles in Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Incidents in Castlewellan during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities:
1980
- 6 January 1980 - James Cochrane (21), Catholic and Richard Wilson (21), Protestant, both members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, were killed in a Provisional Irish Republican Army land mine attack on their mobile patrol, near Castlewellan.
[edit] Other incidents
1985
- The Red Hand Commandos claimed to have placed a bomb in Castlewellan following the banning of an Orange Order parade.
2000
- An RUC officer was injured in a CIRA booby-trap bomb on the 1st November on the Newcastle Road in the town, close to the RUC station.
