Irish Plantations

Question 1

What is a Bawn?

Answer 1

A strong stone house

Question 2

What is an undertaker

Answer 2

Someone in charge (basically a landlord)

Question 3

What’s a tenant?

Answer 3

They rented land and worked (eg blacksmith)

Question 4

What is a servitor

Answer 4

An ex soldier

Question 5

What is a Woodkern

Answer 5

The native Irish

Question 6

What were the 4 plantations?

Answer 6

The Pale
Laois / Offaly
Munster
Ulster

Question 7

Who founded the plantation The Pale

Answer 7

Henry VIII

Question 8

Who founded the plantation Laois / Offaly?

Answer 8

Mary

Question 9

Who founded the plantation Munster

Answer 9

Elizabeth

Question 10

Who founded the plantation Ulster

Answer 10

James

Question 11

How was protestantism related to the topic of plantations

Answer 11

Planters had to be Protestant

Question 12

Where did the planters come from

Answer 12

England and Scotland

Question 13

Whats an example of a plantation town?

Answer 13

Londonderry

Question 14

Why did the woodkerne hate the planters?

Answer 14

The planters took their land.
The planters were seen as Protestant heretics

Question 15

Why did Laois/Offaly fail?

Answer 15

Too few planters, bad defences and poor land

Question 16

Why did Munster fail

Answer 16

Poor quality tenants and Woodkerne attack

Question 17

Why did rulers set up the plantations?

Answer 17

They wanted to make Ireland Protestant.
They wanted to stop Spain using Ireland against England.
They wanted to make money from Planter rents.

Question 18

Why did Ulster succeed?

Answer 18

It had good land.
Good defences.
Better tenants

Question 19

What did plantation towns look like and what were some defences?

Answer 19

They had
- stone walls
- stone houses
- grid pattern streets
- lookout towers

Question 20

When was the woodkern rebellion against the protestant planters

Answer 20

The rebellion was in 1641