ARTEFACT The Results of the Ulster Plantation under King James I
Ulster was more successful than Laois-Offaly and Munster Large numbers of English and Scottish settled in Ulster
Cromwell reconquered Ireland and confi scated more land New towns were founded and very well planned
Ulster became the most loyal of the plantations to the Crown English-style houses and castles were built The Protestant population grew
Tensions between the two groups fl ared (and exist to this day) Markets were set up in plantation towns Rebellions persisted
CHECKPOINT!
1. What was the Nine Years War? 2. Which monarch organised the Ulster Plantation? Why? 3. How was Co. Derry’s plantation organised? 4. Explain the terms servitor; Loyal Irish; and Flight of the Earls. 5. Why do you think the Loyal Irish had to pay so much more rent than the undertakers and servitors? 6. How did the Ulster Plantation affect: (a) population; (b) religion; (c) land ownership? 7. After plantation, what fraction of the population of Ulster was Scottish? 8. Name three advances that came to Ulster with the planters.
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I know the background to the Ulster Plantation, how it was organised and I can explain its results.
TIME TO GO BACK I CAN MOVE FORWARD Crop farming began to take over from cattle farming
Recap: the Irish plantations under each of the English monarchs
