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    Strabane Barony during the Ulster Plantation 1607-1641
    Strabane Barony during the Ulster Plantation 1607-1641
    Strabane Barony during the Ulster Plantation 1607-1641
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    Strabane Barony during the Ulster Plantation 1607-1641

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    The Ulster Plantation of the early seventeenth century is widely accepted as a period of critical importance in the shaping of modern Ulster and one of the most significant projects of colonisation in the early modern world. However, there have been relatively few studies that have looked in detail at the impact of the Plantation scheme at local level.

    This publication brings together the work of a group of professional and amateur historians. Forty years ago a small group of people under the leadership of the late Mr Robert J. Hunter (University of Ulster) looked firstly at the Plantation of Ulster and then sought out information for this period relating specifically to the barony of Strabane.

    Under the scheme of Plantation, Strabane barony was allocated to undertakers from Scotland, the chief of whom was James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn. The settlement here was therefore overwhelmingly Scottish, rather than English. Chapters in this book look at Strabane in the pre-Plantation era, the background of the Scottish undertakers, the development of the town of Strabane, the impact of the Reformation, and the socio-economic conditions prevailing in the barony in the early seventeenth century.

    First published over 30 years ago, this fresh edition presents to a new audience the story of the Plantation in the barony of Strabane. It stands as an exemplar of the way in which a professional historian and his students can successfully work together to produce a high-quality publication.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUlster Historical Foundation
    Release dateJan 16, 2012
    ISBN9781908448200
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      Strabane Barony during the Ulster Plantation 1607-1641 - Ulster Historical Foundation

      Robert John (Bob) Hunter was born in rural Meath in 1938 and was educated at Wesley College and Trinity College, Dublin. After graduation in 1960, he began research on the Ulster Plantation in the counties of Armagh and Cavan, 1608–41. This interest in the Plantation, and early modern Irish history generally, was to dominate his life.

      In 1963 he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in History at Magee College, thus beginning an association with the city of Derry that was to continue for the rest of his life. The creation of what was to become the University of Ulster also saw him teaching regularly in Coleraine.

      Through his meticulous research, he developed an encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject, traversing such themes as the development of towns, the role of the English planters, the history of trade and migration and the intellectual and cultural life of Ulster more generally.

      Though his untimely death in 2007 was to cut short his ambitions for further writing, he was nevertheless to leave behind more than thirty articles, essays, reviews, etc., which were the result of painstaking study conducted with a careful eye for detail and relevance.

      Map of Scotland c. 1607, Scotia Regnum by William Hole, courtesy of the R.J. Hunter Collection

      Strabane Barony

      during the

      Ulster Plantation

      1607–1641

      Edited by

      Robert J. Hunter

      Published in association with the R.J. Hunter Committee. The Committee works to acknowledge the contribution R.J. Hunter made to the study of our past by making more widely known the results of his research, as well as giving limited support to others engaged in associated endeavours.

      COVER DESIGN:

      Bodley map for Strabane barony of 1609 and John Speed’s map of Ulster c. 1616, both courtesy of the Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich Memorial Library and Archive; ruin of Mountcastle, near Dunnamanagh, courtesy of William Roulston. Cover design by David Graham

      First published in this format 2011

      by Ulster Historical Foundation,

      49 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 6RY

      www.ancestryireland.com

      www.booksireland.org.uk

      Except as otherwise permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means with the prior permission in writing of the publisher or, in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of a licence issued by The Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publisher.

      © R.J. Hunter et al

      Epub ISBN: 978-1-908448-20-0

      Mobi ISBN: 978-1-908448-19-4

      Printed by Industrias Gráficas Castuera

      Design by FPM Publishing

      Contents

      FOREWORD TO NEW EDITION

      PREFACE

      INTRODUCTION

      1 STRABANE BARONY AT THE END OF THE 16TH CENTURY

      Geographical background

      Historical background – The Irish

      Historical background – The Scots and Scotland

      2 THE PLANTATION

      The Plan

      The Plantation survey of Strabane barony in 1609

      Conditions of the Plantation

      Allocation of land in Strabane barony

      The Plantation families

      Other Plantation people

      3 THE TOWN OF STRABANE

      General proposals for the establishment of towns

      Strabane before the Plantation

      The growth of Strabane

      The members of the first corporation

      The Strabane charter

      The corporation of Strabane

      The town and its landlord

      4 THE CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE

      Background

      The bishops

      Landlords and laity

      1622 Visitation reports and lists of incumbents

      5 MILITARY MATTERS IN TROUBLED TIMES

      6 ECONOMIC ASPECTS

      General background to 1610

      Income and expenditure

      Development of the land

      Trade at the beginning of the Plantation

      7 BUILDINGS

      Buildings before the Plantation

      Building progress during the Plantation – the surveys

      Costs of building

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      INDEX

      Maps and Illustrations

      MAPS

      Allocation of lands to English and Scottish undertakers in the Plantation scheme of 1610

      Strabane barony showing the Plantation proportions

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Extract Map of Scotland c. 1607, Scotia Regnum

      The Place of Paisley: Scottish home of the Hamiltons

      Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone (d. 1616)

      The Sperrins near Goles, Badoney parish

      An Irish chieftain feasting (from Derricke’s The Image of Irelande)

      Caricature of Turlough Luineach O’Neill

      Submission of Turlough Luineach O’Neill before Lord Deputy Sidney (from Derricke’s The Image of Irelande)

      Hamilton memorial in Paisley Abbey

      Ruins of Derrywoon Castle, Barons Court

      Tombstone to Robert Granger (d. 1630), Grange Graveyard

      Extract from map of c. 1601 showing Strabane and Lifford

      Representation of Strabane on Down Survey map of c. 1655

      William Hamilton memorial in Camus-juxta-Mourne Parish Church, Strabane

      Extract from patent of Newton and Lislap to James Clapham

      Bishop George Montgomery

      Algeo stone, Malison Bridge, Artigarvan

      Old Camus Church

      Badoney Graveyard, Glenelly Valley

      Former parish church of Cappagh, Dunmullan

      Hamilton monument in Old Leckpatrick Graveyard

      Omagh fort, early 1600s

      Lifford fort c. 1601

      Dunalong fort c. 1601

      Ruin of Mountcastle, near Dunnamanagh

      Derrywoon Castle, Barons Court

      Newtownstewart Castle

      The Place of Paisley: Scottish home of the Hamiltons, Earls of Abercorn

      Foreword

      FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO MY ANCESTOR James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, stepped off a boat from Scotland to begin a new life in Ireland. That he should have left the comforts of a life in Scotland and all the privileges that went with his position shows something of the power of persuasion possessed by his king, James VI and I, as well as perhaps something of his own sense of adventure. He made his home at Strabane and four centuries later my family still lives in this area. This book tells his story and that of many others in this fascinating period of our history.

      It was my pleasure to meet R.J. ‘Bob’ Hunter on more than one occasion and I was struck by his passion for history and his enthusiasm for communicating it to others. He had an inquisitive mind for all things relating to the Ulster Plantation and enjoyed excursions to early seventeenth-century castles as much as delving into the archives and exploring the documentation of the time.

      I commend this book as an excellent example of the way in which a professional historian and his students can successfully work together to produce a high-quality publication. All of us can learn something from it as we look back from the vantage point of 2011 on events that changed our province forever.

      JAMES ABERCORN

      His Grace the Duke of Abercorn KG

      Preface

      THIS PROJECT DEVELOPED OUT OF AN EVENING COURSE conducted by me in Strabane under the auspices of the extra-mural department of Magee University College on the Plantation in Ulster as a whole. Afterwards, in the winters 1969–70 to 1971–2, a small group was assembled, meeting in the Abercorn Arms hotel, to make a study of the plantation in the Strabane area which we hoped would be adequate for reproduction and local sale. Since the plantation was organised on a regional basis, the barony of Strabane – allocated to Scots – formed a coherent unit of investigation. It was my function (however casually fulfilled) to attempt to provide some guidance in the use of source materials and to get together by transcript and photocopy relevant extracts from unpublished sources.

      We were fortunate to secure the co-operation of Mr K.W. Nicholls of University College, Cork who provided us at a very early stage with a most valuable section on the Gaelic back ground of the Strabane region. Equally, Professor M. Perceval-Maxwell of McGill University, Montreal generously provided material on the Scottish background to plantation and on the Scottish ‘undertakers’ who received grants of estates in Strabane barony, prior to the publication of his own book in 1973.

      Apart from their contributions and my own chapter on the town of Strabane and some additional material, the finished production is essentially the work of the Strabane Local History Group.

      The contributions were written mainly during the period 1970–74. The group became disrupted in the mid 1970s and credit for much of the editorial work and the drive towards completion must go to Mr Michael Cox whose very fine maps, finished in 1978, deserve particular scrutiny. Regrettably, pressure of space has precluded footnotes, but the principal sources used are listed in the bibliography.

      At the end of each section or chapter the initials of each contributor are given as follows:

      The professionals –

      Robert J. Hunter (RJH)

      Michael Perceval-Maxwell (MP-M)

      Kenneth Nicholls (KN)

      The amateurs –

      J. Michael Cox (JMC)

      Mrs E. Mehaffy (Mrs M)

      Mrs B. McGillian (Mrs McG)

      Ian Wallace (IW)

      I

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