Dear friends of Beara, I just found this article and thought some of you might like to read it too. http://www.theirishstory.com/2011/03/28/the-munster-plantation-and-the-maccarthys-1583-1597/#.UTNkVjDvuSo "The Munster Plantation ? the English land confiscation and colonisation ? hit the province after the Desmond Rebellions of the 1570s and 80 ? here, in the first part of a series of articles on the period, John Dorney looks at the fortunes of the MacCarthy clans in the face of it." -- Bill