Plantations of Ireland

As a Plantation (English plantation " planting ", " settlement" ) was introduced in Ireland called historical measures of England, who had the settlement of English, Scottish and Welsh immigrants to Britain's neighboring island to the destination.

The first attempts to settle the British in Ireland, there was already under Henry VIII and especially under Elizabeth I. This took place on the territory of the present Counties Offaly and Laois. More Plantations were the Munster Plantation and especially the Ulster Plantation in the early 17th century in the late 16th century.

The Ulster Plantation

While unfavorable for intensive agriculture Connacht was largely spared from Plantations, the Ulster Plantation was the one who was most successful in the long term from English -Scottish perspective. She has gone down as one of the main causes of the current conflict in Northern Ireland in the story.

In the years 1603 to 1660, after the Irish defeat in the Nine Years' War and the associated Flight of the Earls, English and Scottish Protestant faith peasants were forcibly relocated to the region of Ulster partly, partly lured material. This settlement laid the foundations of the centuries- long conflict between the different segments of the population. It is clear that the conflict in Northern Ireland has national- colonial roots.