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Junior Cert History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Gaelic Clans | Native Irish Ruling Families |
| The Pale | Area around Dublin. Centre of English control in ireland |
| Common law | English law |
| Brehon law | Irish law |
| Lord deputy | King's rep. in Ireland |
| Plantation | Plant English people in Ireland to take over control |
| Surrender and regrant | Give up your land, promise allegiance, get your land back |
| First 2 counties to be planted | Laois/Offaly |
| Munster | A plantation |
| Ulster | A plantation |
| O'Neill, O'Donnell, Boyle | Ulster clans |
| Kinsale | Help landed here for Ulster |
| Spain | Helped Ireland because it was Catholic |
| Treaty of Mellifont | O'Neill's Surrender and regrant |
| What year was Flight of the Earls? | 1607 |
| Flight of the Earls | Ulster lords left Rathmullan to escape |
| Planters | English people placed in Ireland |
| Servitors | Soldiers given Irish land as payment |
| Bawn | Stone wall around your land |
| Gaelic Irish | Native Irish people |
| Guilds | Set up a business |
| Cromwell | English soldier who helps to plant Ireland |