Plantation of Ulster

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!The Plantation of Ulster was the organised colonisation of Ulster-a province of Ireland-by people from Great Britain. Private plantation by wealthy landowners began in 1606, while official plantation controlled by King James I of England and VI of Scotland began in 1609. All land owned by Irish chieftains the Neills and Donnells along with those of their supporters were confiscated and used to settle the colonists. This land comprised an estimated half a million acres in the counties Tyrconnell, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Cavan, Coleraine and Armagh (wasteland, woodland and bogland were uncounted. Most of the counties Antrim and Down were privately colonised.