The Plantation of Ulster: How 1609 Changed Ireland Forever 1. Irish history 2. County Down 3. 1798 Rebellion 4. United Irishmen 5. Irish rebellion 6. Ulster history 7. Irish heritage #IrishHistory #CountyDown #1798Rising #UntoldIreland #IrishHeritage

Irish massacres during the plantation era, most notably in 1641, involved violent attacks by native Irish Catholics against British Protestant settlers in Ulster. An estimated 4,000 Protestants were killed, with 6,000–12,000 more dying of exposure. Retaliatory violence by settlers and later Oliver Cromwell's army. insurgents methodically murdered Protestant settlers wherever possible. Some of the primary native Irish ‘beneficiaries’ of the Ulster Plantation, it is suggested, having got into econ