The Scotch-Irish

A great migration to North Ireland began in the early 1600s. The new settlers were English, Scottish Presbyterians, Welsh, and other Europeans. Historians call this era the Plantation Period.

England ruled Ireland. Government policy and frequent hardships molded the new settlers into a hardened, determined, and secretive race, who left few records of their lives on “the Green Island.”

In the following century, descendants of these farming folk moved on to colonies in the New World, there to be dubbed the Scotch-Irish.

To aid the search for settler folk in Ireland, the authors have consulted other documents listing Counties, Baronies, Parishes, and Townlands where the first families made their homes. A brief but detailed history comprises the first half of this volume; you can begin your personal search on page 119.