CHAPTER VII 



Till-: IKISII LANDLORD AND HIS ESTA 



to-day In .1 country ot 



esti proprietoi is of the p^ 



ick in most to conqu 



English conquerors overran Ireland at four 



First in May, 1169, camt 

 a host of Norman-Welsh Conquistadors; then 

 followed under Elizabeth the colonization of 

 Mui nd of Ulster under Janru en the 



foundations of the present Anglo-Scottish colony 

 , ere laid. A further great outburst of 

 colonizing activity took place under the govern- 

 ment of Cromwell, which however came to a 

 idstill under the Restoration. The fourth 

 and last seizure of Irish land by conquest took 

 r the second or " glorious" revolution. 

 <j plantation schemes it was sough 

 establish not only large owners but also small 

 peasants and labourers, an object which was 

 icd, in Ulster only, by the " Plan- 

 tation of Ulster." The present landowner 



' are to a large extent descendants of 

 se colonists who were invested with 

 conquered land I or Commonwealth. 



