Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from Fifty Years of Concessions to Ireland, Vol. 2 of 2: 1831-1881Before entering upon my subject proper I shall notice, very briefly, those "confiscations" by which the "whole power and property of the country were conferred upon tho English adventurers" to whom Lord Clare refers.The confiscations were in the main four : -In the reign of Queen Mary, the territories of the O'Moorcs and O'Connors in Offaly and Leix were confiscated, the districts of Offaly and Leix formed into the King's and Queen's Counties, and English settlers placed in possession of the lands of the expropriated Irish chiefs.In the reign of Elizabeth, the vast estates of Desmond, extending over the counties of Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford, and numbering 295, 379 acres, were forfeited. The Elizabethan confiscations were followed by the Plantation of Ulster and Leinster in the reign of James I., when 2, 836, 837 acres in the former, and about 450, 000 acres in tho latter province were wrested from the ancient proprietors. Next, came the Cromwellian Settlement, when 11, 000, 000 acres - reduced at the Restoration (when Cromwell's scheme was re-adjusted) to 7, 800, 000 acres - were "settled" in the interests of the "English colony, " to the wrong of "the old inhabitants of the island."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.