Martial Men and Debateable Lands

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Martial Men and Debateable Lands:
Frontier Culture amongst Anglo-Scottish Borderers, Ulster-Scots and Aboriginal Americans
by Gordon Ramsey[/size]

Land in the escheated counties was granted to ‘undertakers’ who were required to build a castle and settle Scots or English tenants on the land. The native Irish who still remained in the depopulated province were to be allowed to remain on inferior lands, seperated from those of the planters. A system of ‘apartheid’ was envisaged. Difficulties in attracting sufficient Protestant settlers to occupy all the escheated lands, however, meant such plans soon broke down and Catholic tenants were accepted alongside Protestant incomers. By 1640, about 40,000 migrants had settled in Ulster

Martial Men and Debateable Lands by Gordon Ramsey