 Béal na Bláth is part of the Cork North-West (Dáil constituency).On 22 August 1922, during the Irish Civil War, Michael Collins, Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-chief of the National Army, was killed in an ambush here by anti-treaty IRA forces while travelling in convoy from Bandon.The ambush was planned in a farmhouse in Béal na Bláth close to The Diamond Bar.