Timothy Tuomey of Gortclohy was a victim of the Ballyseedy incident during the Irish Civil War. On 7 March 1923, Tuomey and eight other Republican prisoners of the Free State army were taken from the barracks in Tralee to Ballyseedy, where a mine had been prepared by two Dublin Guard officers. In addition to Tuomey, two other prisoners from the Kilflynn civil parish were present, Stephen Fuller (later to be Teachta Dála for North Kerry) and George O'Shea; all had been fighting with the Kilflynn Flying Column. The nine were tied in a standing circle with their backs to the mine which was then remotely detonated. Bombs and bullets followed. The only survivor was Fuller. Tuomey and O'Shea are buried in the Republican plot in Kilflynn.
