Bully's Acre

Bully's Acre is a burial ground laid out circa 1798 in Ballinalee, County Longford, serving as a mass grave for Irish rebels executed in the aftermath of the Battle of Ballinamuck on 8 September 1798. Following the defeat of combined Irish and French forces at Ballinamuck, Irish insurgents were treated as traitors rather than prisoners of war by government forces under Lord Cornwallis and Gener...