The Plantations

Question 1

The Plantations

Answer 1

Irish land confiscated by the monarch could be sold or rented to loyal English settlers

Question 2

Old English

Answer 2

English settlers who held key positions of power and were loyal to the English king.

Question 3

Anglo-Irish

Answer 3

Descended from earlier Norman settlers. Many adopted Gaelic customs and language. Some held positions of power from the English king.

Question 4

Gaelic Irish

Answer 4

The native Irish. They were Catholic. Followed Brehon Law.

Question 5

Surrender & Regrant

Answer 5

Henry VIII’s plan to make Gaelic landowners loyal to him. He took their land but allowed them to rent it from him as long as they promised to support him.

Question 6

Brehon Law

Answer 6

The laws followed by the Gaelic Irish. They were quite different from the English law. e.g cattle was a measure of wealth, divorce was allowed

Question 7

Laois-Offaly

Answer 7

Where the first plantation took place. Queen Mary I was the monarch.

Question 8

King’s County

Answer 8

The English name for Offaly

Question 9

Queen’s County

Answer 9

The English name for Laois

Question 10

Queen Mary I

Answer 10

Organised the Laois/Offaly Plantation

Question 11

Munster Plantation

Answer 11

The second plantation. Took place in the south of Ireland. Elizabeth I was the monarch

Question 12

Queen Elizabeth I

Answer 12

Organised the Munster Plantation

Question 13

Adventurers

Answer 13

Protestant English soldiers who were given land in Munster

Question 14

Undertakers

Answer 14

Protestant English settlers who promised spread English customs and laws.

Question 15

Ulster Plantation

Answer 15

The third and biggest Plantation in the north of Ireland.

Question 16

Red’ Hugh O’ Neill

Answer 16

Gaelic Ulster chieftain who fought against the English.

Question 17

Flight of the Earls

Answer 17

Defeated Gaelic chieftains and soldiers left Ireland for other Catholic European countries never to return.

Question 18

The Nine Years War

Answer 18

Period from 1594-1603 when Gaelic chieftains led by Hugh O’ Donnell fought the English.

Question 19

Servitors

Answer 19

Soldiers who had fought in The 9 Years War. They were rewarded with land to rent in Ulster.

Question 20

Loyal Irish

Answer 20

Gaelic Irish who’d remained loyal to England in The Nine Years War. They were allowed to keep their land in Ulster but had to pay very high rent.

Question 21

Presbyterians

Answer 21

The religion of many of the Scottish settlers in Ulster.

Question 22

King James I

Answer 22

Ordered the Ulster Plantation.

Question 23

The Pale

Answer 23

Area around Dublin settled and controlled by the English.

Question 24

Londonderry

Answer 24

English name for Derry. London craft guilds sent workers there to set up industries.

Question 25

Penal Laws

Answer 25

Laws that suppressed the status of Catholics in Ireland

Question 26

Succession

Answer 26

Land being passed down from father to son in the English system. Previously, under Brehon Law a clan chose its own leader

Question 27

Ulster Plantation, Royal, Legacy today.

Answer 27

The Ulster Plantation was started by King James I in the early 1600s to settle English and Scottish Protestants in Ulster, a largely Gaelic and Catholic region of Ireland. This led to significant changes: Protestant settlers took over land, displacing many native Irish Catholics, which created deep-rooted religious and cultural tensions. These changes resulted in long-term conflicts between the communities, influencing Irish history for centuries.