A protected area in the sixteenth century where English laws and customs existed. It stretched from Dundalk to Dalkey and out towards Trim, Kells and Tallaght. It was protected by English soldiers at this time.
Catholic English living in Ireland who were loyal to the English monarch.
Catholic descendants of the Norman settlers in Ireland who had adopted many of the Irish customs.
Lord Deputy of Ireland The English monarch’s representative in Ireland. Gaelic Irish
The Catholic Gaelic chieftains who spoke Irish and used Brehon Laws.
Surrender and Regrant English policy to anglicise the legal and land-owning system of Ireland. Succession Plantation
Woodkernes Adventurers
Flight of the Earls Undertakers
Absentees Servitors
Sectarian conflict
Apprentice boys Down Survey
Tories (Toraí) Gaelic-Irish outlaws who raided the area of the Pale.
The name given to the people encouraged by the English monarch to lay claims on Irish lands.
In 1607, Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone and other Gaelic nobility fled Ireland.
English planters who ‘undertook’ to fulfil certain conditions when they received land in Ireland.
Landlords who did not live on their estates.
Soldiers who had ‘served’ in the English army and were rewarded with land in Ireland.
Fighting or hostility between subdivisions (sects) of a larger religious group (e.g. Catholic and Protestant – these two sects are both part of the Christian religion).
Young men learning the trade of the various guilds in the country. A survey of all of Ireland to help with the distribution of land to planters.
The name given to Irish Catholic outlaws during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
English system under which the eldest son inherits the land of his father.
English policy in Ireland that ‘planted’ loyal English subjects in lands confiscated from disloyal Irish.