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Plantations Test

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING:

a. The Pale

4 lines
2.

b. Surrender and Regrant

4 lines
3.

c. Plantation

4 lines
4.

d. Undertakers

4 lines
5.

e. Servitors

4 lines
6.

The area around Dublin where most Old English lived was known as the (a)   . The 3 groups in Ireland in the early 1500s were the (b)   ​ , the Anglo ​ (c)   - and the ​ (d)   Irish

Choose from the below words
Pale
Old English
Irish
Gaelic
7.

Henry VIII’s plan to control Ireland was known as ​ (a)   and ​ (b)  

The first plantation, under Queen Mary, was in ​ (c)   /Offaly.

Queen Elizabeth encouraged Protestant English called ​ (d)   to travel to Ireland and claim land.

Choose from the below words
Surrender
Regrant
Laois
Adventurers
8.

In 1582, Hugh O’Neill was appointed ​ (a)   of ​ (b)   by Queen Elizabeth

O’Neill, O’Donnell and other Irish Lords fought the English in the ​ (c)   ​ (d)   War.

Choose from the below words
Earl
Tyrone
Nine
Years
9.

After the defeat by the British in the battle of ​ (a)   in 1601, Hugh O’Neill signed the ​ (b)   of ​ (c)  

In 1607 O’Neill and other Gaelic leaders fled Ireland. This was called the ​ (d)   of the ​ (e)   .

Choose from the below words
Kinsale
Treaty
Melifont
Flight
Earls
10.

Match the following

a)

1556

1.

Plantation of Laois Offaly

b)

1601

2.

Battle of Kinsale

c)

1607

3.

Flight of the Earls

d)

1609

4.

Plantation of Ulster

e)

1652-58

5.

Cromwelliam Plantation