Plantation of Ulster
Irish colonial resettlement
The Plantation of Ulster was the organized colonization of the northern Irish province beginning in 1609, when the English crown confiscated land from Gaelic chieftains and granted it to Protestant settlers from England and Scotland.
The plantation created lasting demographic and religious divisions between native Catholic Irish and Protestant settlers—divisions that shaped Northern Ireland's conflicts into the 21st century.
The Plantation of Ulster transformed the region's character within a generation.
- land surveyingMeasuring and mapping terrain
- fortified townsWalled communities for defense
- undertakersFuneral service professionals
- PresbyterianismProtestant tradition with elder councils
- servitorsThose who serve others
native displacement · Irish diaspora · Londonderry · English common law · cultural assimilation · demographic change · historical memory · Protestant · English · sectarianism · siege mentality · Tyrone · James I · land grants · urbanization · Donegal · chieftains · rebellion
- Irish HistoryGreat Famine, Easter Rising, Irish nationalism, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
- Jacobean EnglandJames I, King James Bible, divine right, divine right of kings, English throne
Plantation of UlsterIrish independence
Ireland's break from Britain
Irish Free State · Irish War of Independence · Republic of Ireland · Easter Rising · Irish nationalism
Plantation of Ulsterrefugee resettlement
Housing those fleeing persecution