Plantation of Laois and Offaly In 1556, during the reign of Mary Tudor, the decision was taken to plant the counties of Laois and Offaly. Laois became known as Queen’s ...
Early Elizabethan Plantations During the reign of Elizabeth I, in 1571, Sir Thomas Smith was sent to plant the Ards Peninsula as the first step towards settling ...
Munster Plantation The leading Irish family in Munster was the Desmonds who were defeated by the forces of the crown in 1583. Nearly half a million acres ...
Raleigh One of the largest landowners of the Munster Plantation was Sir Walter Raleigh who gained land around Youghal in east Cork. His ...
Ulster Plantation From 1594 a rebellion had raged in Ulster led by Hugh O’Neill and this was known as the Nine Year’s War. O’Neill agreed to peace terms ...
London Guilds Much of County Derry, then called County Coleraine, was granted to the London Guilds. They came in large numbers and settled all over ...
Scottish Planters Two Scotsmen, both from Ayrshire, had carried out plantations in Ulster before the main plantation in 1610. They were Hugh Montgomery ...
Other Jacobean plantations Apart from the main plantation in Ulster there were smaller plantations in other parts of Ireland where the natives had been disloyal ...
Cromwellian Settlement In 1649 Oliver Cromwell came to Ireland probably for two main reasons. He wished to punish the Irish Roman Catholics who had rebelled in ...
Williamite Settlement The period of the Williamite Wars saw many changes in Ireland. When the wars ended and the Penal Laws were introduced, Catholic land ...
