Lyn Brown <[email protected]>wrote: >Hello, Pat, >What exactly do you mean by Cromwells Transportation Scheme. > >Do you mean people who Cromwell brought to IRELAND or something else? >I have only read of the ones he brought to Ireland. >Thank you in reply. > >Lyn Brown in Griffith =========================== >On 21/03/2010, at 7:55 AM, Pat Connors wrote: > > > I have just put my transcription online for this parish on the > > Monaghan > > section of my website. It is quite large and includes over 750 names. > > Please read my transcription notes carefully to see what kind of > > problems I encountered with this transcription.> > > > > From my reading, I have read that Monaghan was quite effected by > > Cromwell's transportation scheme. I > > -- > > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA ------------------------------------------------------ From reading "The Monaghan Story", by Livingstone, it seems that Monaghan was not part of the 6 counties included in the Plantation Scheme. The Irish there were not forced to go to Connaught. But even before the 1641 rebellion they had sold, left their lands, or their land was taken from them. In the county census of 1659 there were 4,084 heads of households, of which only 434 were English and 3,649 were Irish. That doesn't mean the Irish owned the house. They were probably renters of the land they once owned. The heads of household figure might equate to a population of 20,000. There were never enough settlers in Monaghan to enforce the Penal Laws to any great extent. When the Catholic King James II reigned around the 1680,s? The Irish mostly quit paying rents, or paid very little. Even a Franciscan Monastery was re-opened in 1688 in Monaghan. 1685 found many Irish still on their old lands, even though they were only renters. That short era of small freedoms ended with the Battle of the Boyne in 1689. James II left England for France. Although the Monaghan landlords were not bound to bring in British tenants as were those in the 6 counties of the Ulster Plantation, they tried to displace the Irish with the British. But leasing lands in Monaghan was not very attractive for the settlers since there was a cattle disease and England was not buying Irish raised cattle, and living among a strong population of Irish, which included tories and rapparees, was somewhat dangerous. A large number came in the early 1700, s but many areas were untouched by settlers. There is a list of names of Plantation settlers, English and Scotch, in the various parts of the 6 counties on my web page. http://www.angelfire.com/my/tray/index.html Also Plantation info, The Penal Laws, and names of the "Adventurers for Land in Ireland" .