Irish Plantations 👍

Question 1

Bawn

Answer 1

Stone house

Question 2

Woodkerne

Answer 2

Native Irish soldiers

Question 3

Undertaker

Answer 3

A person in charge of the plantation.
Rich person in charge. English/Scottish men.
They could afford to bring families from England to Scotland

Question 4

Tenant

Answer 4

They pay rent to use land from a landlord. E.g blacksmith, a weaver, carpenter, farmer

Question 5

Servitor

Answer 5

Ex soldiers who were guards

Question 6

Which did Henry vii set up

Answer 6

The pale

Question 7

Which did Mary 1st set up

Answer 7

Laois/offaly

Question 8

Which did Elizabeth set up

Answer 8

Munster

Question 9

Which did James set up

Answer 9

Ulster

Question 10

How is Protestantism linked

Answer 10

Planters had to be Protestant.
British Protestants who wanted to make Ireland Protestant too

Question 11

How is England and Scotland linked

Answer 11

Most Irish planters and settlers came from England and Scotland

Question 12

How is londonderry linked

Answer 12

A plantation town
Protestant planters call it londonderry
Irish woodkerne call it Derry

Question 13

What are 2 reasons why the woodkerne hated planters

Answer 13

Irish wanted their land back as planters were taking their land.

They were a different religion and they wanted to get rid of Protestant heretics. Because the woodkerne are Catholic

Question 14

Why did Laois Offaly fail

Answer 14

Too few planters

Question 15

Why did Munster fail

Answer 15

Poor quality tenants(murderers).
Not enough defences .
Poor land(climate wasn’t good and attacks by Irish raiders made it difficult and dangerous).
Poor choice of planters .
Woodkerne attacks .
Poor quality undertakers(who charged too high of rent).

Question 16

What are the 3 reasons why the plantations were set up

Answer 16

Religion
Money
Spain
Also to stop invasions

Question 17

Religion, why were plantations set up for this

Answer 17

To make Ireland Protestant

Question 18

Money, why were plantations set up for this?

Answer 18

To make their country wealthier. To build englands empire
To get money from planters rents

Question 19

Spain, why were plantations set up for this?

Answer 19

To stop the Spanish using Ireland as a back door to England
To stop invasions

Question 20

What does plantation mean

Answer 20

A colony of people

Question 21

What centuries was it in

Answer 21

16th and 17th

Question 22

What plantation was most successful and why

Answer 22

Ulster
Better defences, better land, better tenants.

Question 23

When was the Ulster plantation

Answer 23

23rd October 1609

Question 24

Who is the orange order named after

Answer 24

William of orange

Question 25

When was the orange order set up

Answer 25

21st September 1795

Question 26

Who could be members of the orange order

Answer 26

Only Protestants

Question 27

What are the 3 different churches

Answer 27

Church of England
Roman Catholic Church
The Puritan Church

Question 28

What was the religious, political and imperial reason why it was set up

Answer 28

Religious- to make Ireland Protestant
Political- To stop Spain using Ireland as a backdoor to England
Imperial- to start building England’s empire

Question 29

What was the first plantation and who set it up

Answer 29

The pale.Henry viii

Question 30

What did planters have to be

Answer 30

Protestant

Question 31

Which plantations failed

Answer 31

Laois Offaly.
Munster.
Because they had poor defences, poor tenants, poor land.

Question 32

Name some plantation towns set up in ulster

Answer 32

Lisburn, Moria, Londonderry, Belfast.

Question 33

What were some defences that plantation towns had to protect them from woodkeene attacks?

Answer 33

Walls surrounding. Streets in a grid pattern. Built of stone. Lookouts/towers. Moats+ditches

If you were under attack everyone would gather in the centre of the town to get further instructions and weapons and information.

Question 34

What religion was Ireland before the plantations and who owned the land?

Answer 34

Roman Catholic country. Wood kerne owned the land.

Question 35

What religion was Ireland after the plantations and who owned the land?

Answer 35

Protestant country. Protestant planters owned the land.

Question 36

Where is Ulster Scots spoken

Answer 36

Northern Ireland

Question 37

Who did king James give land in Ulster to to create a private plantation?

Answer 37

James Hamilton. Hugh Montgomery of Ayrshire estates in County Down.

Question 38

Name 6 counties which became James’s official plantation in Ulster

Answer 38

Coleraine, Cavan, Donegal, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Armagh

Question 39

What specific settlers did undertakers want and why?

Answer 39

Farmer-to supply food.
Mason- build walls and houses.
Weavers- make clothes.
Carpenters- build furniture.
Tradesmen, smiths,

Question 40

What did woodkerne do to planters

Answer 40

Riots/attacks. Drowned planters. Set fire to their towns.

Question 41

When was the revolt

Answer 41

23rd October. 1641