From Leinster (eleven counties) 523 landowners were transplanted. The total number of persons mentioned in the certificates is 17,886 for Munster, of whom 8,531 were from Tipperary and nearly 5,000 from Kerry; and from Leinster nearly 8,500. In all, then, there were 1,073 landlords and nearly 27,000 persons from these two provinces.[1]
But is is by no means certain that this number actually did transplant.
The certificates were filled up and handed in by July, 1654, at a time when it was still believed that the transplantation was to be universal. Tenants then gave in their names with their landlords; but it does not follow that they afterwards went off with them to Connaught.
And that even the gentry were not all transplanted appears from the Census of circa 1659, supposed to have been made by or for Sir William Petty. From this we find that in the Barony of Clanwilliam, in Tipperary, there were then fourteen or fifteen persons bearing Irish names, and described as "gent" amongst those whom the Census calls Tituladoes, and that there were four in the barony of Owney and Ara.[2]
This Census of 1659 is even more conclusive in
- ↑ These figures are given by Hardinge. But it is nearly certain that they are not complete. Thus he says that there was no transplantation from Wicklow. But the list in the Ormond MS. mentioned below gives four. Hardinge gives sixteen names from Co. Cork. The Ormond MSS. has about thirty, and the Index to the transplanters' certificates gives twenty-one. Hardinge gives sixty-six as the total number from Kerry; but the Index has ninety-six names from Kerry, of whom twenty-three were townsmen of Dingle, one of these being described as a mason and seven as merchants.
- ↑ Bonn states that in Tipperary among the "Tituladoes" there were sixty Irish, and in Carlow thirty in 1659. Some of these of course may have been Protestants.
