Ireland under the Tudors and Stuarts: plantations

Study note

Ireland was an almost completely Catholic country, but Henry VII and Henry VIII extended English control beyond the Pale, and Henry VIII took the title King of Ireland. Under Elizabeth I and James I many in Ireland opposed Protestant rule, and there were rebellions. The English government encouraged Scottish and English Protestants to settle in Ulster, taking land from Catholic landholders. These settlements were called plantations.

Memory tip: Henry VIII = King of Ireland; Protestant plantations settled in Ulster.