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Bartholomew Teeling 1774-1798 Born in Lisburn, County Antrim. He was a United Irishman who went to France to assist Tone in persuading the French to send military help to the Irish. He was A.D.C. to General Humbert, was captured at Ballinamuck and hanged in Arbour Hill, Dublin. He is buried somewhere in the Croppies’ Acre, Dublin. Croppies’ Acre was the burial place for those executed after the 1798 rebellion. The term croppy referred to the shortness of hair.
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