This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CiY.2ACEB/1345.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Is it accurate that the Scots were lured to Northern Ireland by low taxes by the English wishing to dilute the Catholic hold on the country ? What about the Plantation System ? We always considered ourselves of Scottish descent, rather than Irish, altho immigrant Thos. Gillespie's tombstone says he came from Donegal. Anyone have a clearer idea of what all went on ?