REVISION ON PLANTATIONS

Question	Answer
What was a Plantation?	The English would defeat any Irish that were disloyal to the crown and give their land to Scottish or English settlers
Who were the Old English?	Anglo- Normans who had invaded Ireland previously but now were more Irish than the Irish themselves.
What was the Pale?	An area around Dublin that stretched from Louth to Wicklow and over to Meath.
What law was practiced in the Pale?	English Common law.
What were the Irish law called?	Brehon law
Where was the first Plantation	Laois/Offaly
Who ordered it?	Queen Mary.
What was Black rent?	Money the English in the Pale paid the O'Moores and O'Connors to stop them attacking them.
What happened to the Irish who owned the land in the first planatation?	They lost most their land and got marshy land near the Shannon.
What names were given to the Counties planted	Queens county and Kings county
What was the Result of this plantation?	It Failed
What is a woodkerne?	a person whose land was taken and they lived in the woods and attacked the planters in this first plantation.
Describe 3 achievements of the first plantation.	first counties in Ireland. first towns not near the coast. towns were planned and had a square, courthouse and jail.

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