Bully's Acre

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Bullys Acre is the site in Ballinalee in Co. Longford, Ireland where insurrectionists were executed while prisoners of war of Lord Cornwallis.

While Rules of Engagement were not as strict in the 1790's as today, it still was a shocking atrocity at the time, and is remembered to this day in the locality.

[edit] Background

The 1798 rebellion was inspired by the United Irishmen against British rule. Britain was united since the 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland, and after the failure of the rebellion the Second Act of Union (1801) brought Ireland into the unitary state, previously being a separate entity under a common monarchy.

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