page_title: Ballinamuck
hierarchical_section_title: Ballinamuck
caption_attribution_description: English: Pikemen memorial in Ballinamuck, County Longford, Ireland
context_page_description: Ballinamuck is a village in north County Longford, Ireland.
  It was the scene of the Battle of Ballinamuck, where a French army aiding the United Irishmen rebellion of 1798 was defeated. The French soldiers were eventually repatriated. The Irish prisoners were taken to St Johnstown - today's Ballinalee - where they were executed in what is known locally as Bullys Acre and buried there. Ballinamuck is twinned with the French town of Essert.
context_section_description: Ballinamuck (Irish: Béal Átha na Muc, meaning 'mouth of the pig's ford') is a village in north County Longford, Ireland.
  It was the scene of the Battle of Ballinamuck, where a French army aiding the United Irishmen rebellion of 1798 was defeated. The French soldiers were eventually repatriated. The Irish prisoners were taken to St Johnstown - today's Ballinalee - where they were executed in what is known locally as Bullys Acre and buried there. Ballinamuck is twinned with the French town of Essert.
caption: Pikemen memorial in Ballinamuck
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