A new Plantation was started, made up of Protestant settlers from Scotland and England.

These Protestant settlers replaced the Irish Catholic landowners who were removed from their lands.

Modern historians have argued that the killings of 1641 had a powerful psychological impact on the Protestant settlers.

Many soldiers sold these land grants to other Protestant settlers, but about 7,500 of them settled in Ireland.

Catholics turned on Protestant settlers who were pouring into the country by the thousand under a much despised plantation programme.

They usually lived close to and even in the same townlands as the Protestant settlers.

European settlement of Kingsburg began with 30-acre land lots issued to the original Foreign Protestant settlers.

The Protestant British settlers saw this as a threat to their religious freedoms that they had under English law.

Most of them were pre-war Protestant settlers, who took the opportunity to attain confiscated lands.

He was required to clear and improve the land and establish one Protestant settler for every two acres (8,000 m2).