I can’t answer Tom’s query about school. But Peggy's query about Unagh can
probably be answered. Unagh was in the parish of Lissan and that general area
(near Cookstown) appears to have been church land. Source: Robinson page 163.
So no undertaker or servitor there.
If folk want to read up about the Plantation and Tyrone in the 1600s, then
Philip Robinson’s book: “The Plantation of Ulster” or M. Perceval-Maxwell’s
“The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I” are both detailed
studies which provide masses of data.
The Undertakers were the major landowners. Robinson’s definition is: “A class
of plantation grantee composed of influential English and Scots who were to
“undertake” the plantation of British settlers on the estates they obtained.”
His definition of Servitor: “A class of plantation grantee composed of English
administrative and military officials who were mostly resident crown servants
in Ireland.”
Both categories were appointed by the Crown. They effectively owned the land
and could more or less do what they wished, though ultimately all land belonged
to the Crown and so periodically got forfeit if you were out of favour, but
otherwise you were generally free to do as you pleased with it.
The undertakers undertook to do various things in return for their land grant.
Namely to build public buildings and roads, schools, a bawn (a defensive
fortress), to establish a militia for local defence, and to bring significant
numbers of tenants from their Scottish, English or Welsh estates to establish a
significant community in the area. (Previous attempts at Plantations in
Ireland in the 1500s had failed primarily because insufficient settlers arrived
or stayed.). Throughout the 1600s some estimates reckon 200,000 Scots settled
in Ulster. That would have been about 20% of the entire Scottish population at
the time. They didn’t all come as part of the Planation (1610 – 1625). They
came in batches all through the 1600s and there was a big influx in the 1680s
and 1690s due to the Killing Times in Scotland and then a major famine. But the
outcome was certainly to dominate or at least heavily change certain counties
in Ulster.
In 1784 when the first Catholic church opened in Belfast (St Mary’s) there were
something like 357 Catholics in a city of around 13,000 people. The rest were
all Protestants, mainly Presbyterian Scots. There was hardly anyone of native
Irish origins in the city at all. That perhaps give the flavour of the impact
of the Plantation in some places.
Elwyn
On Tuesday, 18 July 2023, 14:44:13 BST, Tom Chambers via CoTyroneList
<[email protected]> wrote:
On this Map of Allocations from c1610, there is a large area labeled ?School?.
What does that mean?
Tom Chambers Wisconsin/Florida USA
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On Jul 17, 2023, at 3:29 PM, MPGish via CoTyroneList
<[email protected]> wrote:
?Hi.Very interesting map, thank you!
Is there an overlay of this map to a modern map that I could use to see who was
who for my people in Unagh near Cookstown, please?I don't know the area well
enough to work out where Unagh is on the map.Or does anyone know the details of
who was the undertaker and servitor for Unagh?
What were the functions of the 'undertaker' and the 'servitor' please? How were
they appointed? Did they own the land?
Thank you, Peggy, BC, Canada.
On Jul 16, 2023, at 8:16 AM, James McKane via CoTyroneList
<[email protected]> wrote:
Map of Allocations of Land in Co Tyrone c1610
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