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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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Plantations in Ireland" ... Plantation of Ulster; W. Waringstown This page was last edited on 5 March 2023, at 17:06 (UTC). ...
The MacNamaras lost the castle to the O'Briens during the Plantation of Ulster and were further despoiled of the castle during the Rebellion of 1641. The castle survived Cromwell's conquest of Ireland (possibly due to its Protestant ownership at that time) and today operates as hotel. [37] Ballymarkahan Castle Quin 52°48′14″N 8°50′13″W
Ruins of Jamestown Friary, 1791. The Plantation settlement was created by Royal Charter from King James VI & I in 1621 and was founded in 1622 as a plantation town carrying into action the decision of 1620 to plant County Leitrim with loyal English settlers.
Writing in 1846, Larcom remarked that the "large" and "small" acres had no fixed ratio between them, and that there were various other kinds of acre in use in Ireland, including the Irish acre, the English acre, the Cunningham acre, the plantation acre and the statute acre. [11] [14] The Ordnance Survey maps used the statute acre measurement. [11]
Bailieborough or Bailieboro (/ ˈ b eɪ l i b ər ə /; Irish: Coill an Chollaigh, meaning 'the wood of the boar') [2] is a town and civil parish in County Cavan, Ireland. As of the 2022 census, the population was 2,974, [1] up from 1,529 as of the 1996 census. [3] Bailieborough's proximity to the N3 national road has made it a commuter town. [4]
The Settlement of Laois and Offaly Act 1556 (3 & 4 Phil. & Mar. c. 2 (I)) was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland passed in 1556 which resulted in the creation of Queen's County and King's County in the midlands of Ireland, and the establishment of two shire towns at Maryborough and Philipstown (), named in honour of Queen Mary I and King Phillip II. [1]