 Hampshire Regiment historian Scott Daniell noted on the action that ""like all the Irish operations, it was hateful to the British troops"".The IRA suspected that an informer had led the British to the billet of the column wiped out at Clonmult, and over the following week, six alleged spies were executed by the IRA in the surrounding area.Mick Leahy, a local IRA officer, stated that "things went to hell in the battallion" after Clonmult.