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Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, one of the main planners of the Plantation. A colonization of Ulster had been proposed since the end of the Nine Years' War.The original proposals were smaller, involving planting settlers around key military posts and on church land, and would have included large land grants to native Irish lords who sided with the English during the war, such as ...
The plantation of Ulster in the 17th century led to many Scottish people settling in Ireland. These are the surnames of the original Scottish settlers from 1606 to 1641, who would go on to become the ' Scotch-Irish '.
Political boundaries in Ireland in 1450, before the plantations. The first Plantations of Ireland occurred during the Tudor conquest.The Dublin Castle administration intended to pacify and anglicise Irish territories controlled by the Crown and incorporate the Gaelic Irish aristocracy into the English-controlled Kingdom of Ireland by using a policy of surrender and regrant.
Starting in 1609, Scots began arriving into state-sponsored settlements as part of the Plantation of Ulster. This scheme was intended to confiscate all the lands of the Gaelic Irish nobility in Ulster and to settle the province with Protestant Scottish and English colonists. Under this scheme, a substantial number of Scots were settled, mostly ...
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 ...
Territory: Ulster, Counties Armagh, Londonderry, Monaghan, Tyrone, Dublin (1600s) and Limerick (1600s) Extra: A Sept / Family branch, who had their territory in counties Armagh, Londonderry and Tyrone in the Ulster province. Extra: The older record is Mcavinchey, Annie: Ó Glacain (Glacken) Meaning: Progenitor: Territory: Donegal Extra: Ó Cadáin
They persuaded members of their extended families to come and, in May 1606, the first group of farmers, artisans, merchants and chaplains arrived to form the Ulster Scots settlement, [8] four years before the Plantation of Ulster in 1610. The settlement was a success and Hamilton was knighted by the king at Royston on 14 November 1609. [2]
The Flight of the Earls in 1607 cleared the way for the Plantation of Ulster. [13] Like his elder brothers James and Claud, George was an undertaker in the plantation. In 1610 he received a "proportion" of land in the Strabane "precinct", [14] which corresponds to the modern baronies of Strabane Lower and Strabane Upper.