The Plantations

Question 1

The plantations

Answer 1

Irish land confiscated by the crown and colonised by British settlers

Question 2

The pale

Answer 2

The area surrounding Dublin under the direct control of the English crown

Question 3

Anglo-Irish

Answer 3

Descendants of the Anglo- Norman’s who invade Ireland in the twelfth century

Question 4

Gaelic Irish

Answer 4

The Gaelic chieftains who followed Irish law, known as Brehon law

Question 5

Brehon law

Answer 5

Irish laws dating back to the Iron Age

Question 6

Surrender and regrant

Answer 6

Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Irish rulers were to surrender themselves and their lands to Henry VIII, and he would grant their land back to them along with an English title

Question 7

Undertakers

Answer 7

Men who undertook (agreed) to do as they were told with the land given to them

Question 8

Servitors

Answer 8

English or Scottish soldiers who had fought for the crown

Question 9

Loyal Irish

Answer 9

Native Irish who had stayed loyal to the crown during the nine year war

Question 10

Penal laws

Answer 10

Laws that suppressed the status of catholics in Ireland

Question 11

Wattle and daub

Answer 11

Woven mesh plastered with a mixture of mud, dung, sand and straw

Question 12

Contentious issues

Answer 12

An issue that people are likely to argue about