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The population of Ulster before the Plantation has been estimated to be around 180,000-200,000. [24] This was after the destruction caused by the devastating famine and warfare at the end of the Nine Years War. Michael Perceval-Maxwell estimated that by 1600 Ulster's total adult population was only 25,000-40,000. [25]
The main plantations took place from the 1550s to the 1620s, the biggest of which was the plantation of Ulster. The plantations led to the founding of many towns, massive demographic, cultural and economic changes, changes in land ownership and the landscape, and also to centuries of ethnic and sectarian conflict.
The Plantation of Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh) was the organised colonisation (or plantation) of Ulster by people from Great Britain (especially Presbyterians from Scotland). Private plantation by wealthy landowners began in 1606, [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 34 ] while the official plantation controlled by King James I of England (who was also King ...
The Ulster Plantation Baronial map of 1609 depicts the name as Malachmore. [3] [4] The Ulster Plantation grants of 1611 spell the townland name as Mullamore. The 1641 depositions spell it as Molloughmore. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey spells the townland as Mullaghmore. The 1665 Down survey map depicts it as Mullaghmore. [5]
The plantation of Ulster began in the 1610s, during the reign of James I. Following their defeat in the Nine Years' War, many rebel Ulster lords fled Ireland and their lands were confiscated. This was the biggest and most successful of the plantations and comprised most of the province of Ulster.
The flag of the Province of Ulster is often flown in Gaelic Athletic Association contexts. Ulster is one of the four provinces of Ireland.Due to large-scale plantations of people from Scotland and England during the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as decades of conflict in the 20th, Ulster has a unique culture, quite different from the rest of Ireland.
The Ulster Plantation began in the 17th century and involved the settling of English and Scottish Protestants in Ulster. [ 3 ] Coinciding largely with the Eleven Years' War , the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland was led by Oliver Cromwell between 1649 and 1651, resulting in the confiscation of land from many native landowners and regranting to ...
The Mac Cana (McCanns) were a sept of the O'Neills and Lords of Clanbrassil prior to the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century. [4] Around 1610, during the Plantation—and at a time when the area was sparsely populated by Irish Gaels [4] —the lands of Lurgan were granted to the English lord William Brownlow and his family. [5]