Irish Plantations 🧑🌾 Flashcards
(32 cards)
Why did an early plantation usually fail?
Due to a lack of planters
Where was an early plantation failure common?
Laois/Offaly
What was a common poor choice made by the undertakers?
Undertakers sometimes made poor choices when picking tenants.
Who did undertakers choose as a bad choice when picking tenants?
They allowed murderers and thieves
Allowing poor choice tenants was particularly common in _______
Munster
Sometimes in Munster, undertakers allowed in Irish tenants as they could _____ _____ _____
Sometimes in Munster, undertakers allowed in Irish tenants as they could charge high rents
Undertakers and tenants did not always build strong houses or ____________ to defend themselves from the Woodkerne
Undertakers and tenants did not always build strong houses or castles to defend themselves from the Woodkerne
Why did Woodkerne think planters were heretics?
They saw them as protestant heretics in Roman Catholic Ireland
In Munster the planters had to deal with poor quality _____
In Munster the planters had to deal with poor quality soil
In early plantations, the planters were attacked by the ______, who wanted their ______ to return to their families
In early plantations, the planters were attacked by the Woodkerne who wanted their land to return to their families
What are the 4 plantations in Ireland?
Munster, Laois/Offaly, The Pale, Ulster
What was a servitor?
Men who had served the king in Ireland, as soldiers or governors
What plantation did Henry set up
The Pale
What plantation did Mary set
Laois/offaly
What plantation did Elizabeth set up
Munster
What plantation did James set up
Ulster
What centuries were the plantations set up in?
16th century - 17th century
Which plantation was the most successful?
Ulster
What was a religious reason for a plantation?
To make Ireland Protestant (to ‘tame’ the Irish)
What was a political reason for the plantations
To stop spain using Ireland as a ‘back door’ to England
What is a political (imperial) reason for the plantations
To start building englands empire
What is an undertaker
Rich English and Scottish families who could afford to bring up to 10 families with them from England to Scotland.
What is a tenant
People who did the work in plantations, rented land + could be a e.g farmer,blacksmith and weaver
What were the Woodkerne?
Irish soldiers or dispossessed landowners. Native Irish people
