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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 ...
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.
Portclare was granted, in 1613, by James I to Sir Thomas Ridgeway, a prominent figure in the plantation of Ulster. Samuel Lewis recorded Ridgeway's grants as comprising 3,000 acres (12 km 2) of arable land and extending over the present towns of Aughnacloy and Augher, including the districts of Lismore and Garvey, with all the intermediate country. [3]
The Laggan Army in Ireland, 1640-1685: The Landed Interests, Political Ideologies and Military Campaigns of the North-West Ulster Settlers. Dublin: Four Courts Press. Ohlmeyer, Jane (2018). The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 2, 1550–1730. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108592277. Plant, David. "The Confederate War: Campaigns of ...
Scottish and English Protestants were sent as colonists to the provinces of Munster, Ulster and the counties of Laois and Offaly (see also Plantations of Ireland). The largest of these projects, the Plantation of Ulster , had settled up to 80,000 English and Scots in the north of Ireland by 1641.
During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Houstons and other Presbyterians emigrated from Scotland and settled in Ulster. The great migration from Scotland to the north of Ireland occurred between 1640 and 1670, during the later stages of the Plantation of Ulster. [1] Houston descends from baronets (Sir Patrick Houstoun, 1st Baronet). [2]
Con(n) MacShane O'Neill (1565–1630) was an Irish flaith or Prince of Ulster, the Lord of Clabbye, nobleman, rebel, and political leader in the late 16th century and early 17th century. Conn was the son of the ruling monarch of Ulster at the time, Shane O'Neill , known as " Seán an Diomas " or "Shane The Proud".
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.