Seamus Woods from Limehill, Pomeroy joined the IRA in 1985, he was a highly active Volunteer, committed to whatever he was asked to do. On the 7th of July 1988, he was engaged in a mortar and gun attack on the Pomeroy R.U.C barracks. Seamus had taken responsibility for carrying out one of the most dangerous aspects of the opeartion - driving the mortars, positioned on the back of a tractor, to within yards of the heavily fortified barracks. He was killed while withdrawing from the mortars. During a subsequent search by the crown forces at 8am the next morning, his body was found in a field at Edenbank Road.

Volunteer Seamus Woods was the first Volunteer to be buried in the Republican Plot in Pomeroy.