The Plantations Questions
2015 Q.4 People in History:
B. Write about the following:
(i) A settler who received land during a named plantation during the 16th or 17th century. (20)
2014 Q.4 People in History:
A: Write about the following:
(iii) A native Irish landowner who lost land in a named plantation during the sixteenth or seventeenth century. (20)
2013 Q.5 Source Question:
SOURCE D:
SOURCE F
Conditions for British undertakers receiving land during the Ulster Plantation, 1610.
‘Undertakers granted a great proportion of land, shall within 3 years build a stone house with a strong court or a bawn about it; and every undertaker receiving a middle proportion of land shall build a stone or brick house with a strong court or bawn about it. And every undertaker receiving a small proportion of land shall make a strong court or bawn at least.
’ Source: ‘We Declare: Landmark Documents in Ireland’s History’, Aldous and Puirséil, Quercus.
Source:
Questions:
A. Source D
(i) What was the Pale, marked X in Source D? (2) (
ii) Choose one of the plantations shown in Source D and name the ruler responsible for that plantation. (2)
(iii) Give two reasons why English rulers began a policy of plantation in Ireland. (4)
B. Sources E and F
(i) What must the undertakers receiving the most land agree to do? (2)
(ii) What was a bawn? (2)
(iii) Why do you think that it was considered necessary to build strong houses or castles such as that shown in Source E? (2)
C.
Name a plantation which you have studied and write about the effects of that plantation on two of the following:
(a) Political control.
(b) Religion.
(c) Culture and customs. (8 x 2)
2010 Q.3 Short Questions (1 Questions)
(xi) Name two British rulers who ordered plantations to be carried out in Ireland