Confiscation in Irish history

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by William Francis Thomas Butler

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plantations in Ireland involved the confiscation of land by the English crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from the island of Great Britain

2926233Confiscation in Irish history1917William Francis Thomas Butler

CONFISCATION

IN IRISH HISTORY

BY

WILLIAM F. T. BUTLER, M.A.

(M.R.I.A.)

Author of "The Lombard Communes"

T. FISHER UNWIN, LTD.
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE
1917

CONTENTS
Introductory Note		vii.
Chapter		Page
I.	The Tudor Confiscations	1
II.	The Plantation of Ulster	37
III.	The Plantation of Leinster	55
IV.	The Confiscation of Connaught and Ormond	97
V.	The Cromwellian Confiscation	115
VI.	The Restoration Settlement	165
VII.	Jacobites and Williamites	206
VIII.	Results of Confiscation	233
	Index	257

MAPS
			Page
Map	I.	General Map of Ireland to show localities mentioned in the text	frontispiece
Map	II.	Ireland under Henry VIII.	6
Map	III.	South-East Leinster in the 16th Century	62
Map	IV.	To illustrate the Plantation of Leinster	88
Map	V.	East Munster in the 16th Century	108

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MAP I.

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