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Eileen, I won't go into all the details of the ambush as you probably know them or can look them up. The following is summarised from "The Capuchin Annual" 1966 p.307 onwards by Colonel Joseph Lawless, Irish Free State Army, who was a participant in that fighting. I've extracted only the bits concerning the barracks.
The Volunteers were moving towards Batterstown so as to cut the railway line when they came across a manned barricade near the Ashbourne Barracks. They captured the two RIC men manning the barricade and then commenced an attack on the barracks itself. After about 30 mins of this the Volunteers threw grenades at the building and the police decided to surrender. Before the actual surrender could be taken however, about 17 cars laden with police reinforcements came down the road from Slane. This signalled the start of 'Ashbourne Ambush' in which County Inspector Gray, District Inspector Smyth and 7 police were killed, and at least 6 others seriously wounded; up to 20 wounded in total.
The police who were in the barracks did not come out in defence of their comrades but remained inside, according to their officer it was because they had already surrendered and did not want to break their word. When they did emerge, instead of the usual 4-6 men there were 15 plus a District Inspector. I do not know the names of those men and no mention is made of any children being present.
This is a map of the area:



Three of those wounded were from the Barracks itself - 

Con.	Mulvihill			Or 62257 see Trim?
Con.	Syron	M.		67352 or 68473
Con.	Tully	J.J.		SiC 1919

The above is from my own files and needs verification; however I am now convinced that the J.J. Tully above is actually your Sgt J J Tuohy. He also received a certificate of merit plus £5 in recognition.
You really do need to get his service record now! What a find it would be also if you could come up with a photograph.