Timeline of key events relating to the Plantations in Ireland from 1500s onwards. Contains spaces for students to fill in the ruler in charge of each plantation.
View full descriptionStrand: 2. The History of Ireland
Strand unit: 1. Pattern of Settlement & Plantations
Suggestions for use: Students should be given this timeline at the beginning of the unit on the Plantations in Ireland. They can fill in the timeline as they learn about each plantation in class. This resource can be used in conjunction with other resources that make up the 'Introduction to the Plantations' learning path.
Worksheet containing exercises for students studying the topic Plantations. Contains a map which students can cut out and mark showing the areas of land ownership belonging to different groups living in Ireland before the plantations. Also contains an exercise where students fill in a table with information relating to the groups.
View full descriptionStrand: 2. The History of Ireland
Strand unit: 1. Pattern of Settlement & Plantations
Suggestions for use: Can be used in conjunction with other resources as part of the 'Introduction to the Plantations' learning path.
Excellent compilation of teacher resources being shared on this website for J.C History from Mount Temple Comprehensive. Resources include keyword lists, notes, essay plans, useful facts and revision plans. Topics include -browse age, iron age, ancient Ireland, ancient rome, renaissance, archaeology and investigating the past
View full descriptionStrand: Supplementary Resources
Suggestions for use: Teacher resources for planning revision lessons.
Powerpoint presentation introducing the three groups living in Ireland before the Plantations: Gaelic Irish, Anglo-Norman lords and English living in the Pale. Includes lesson objectives and think-pair-share activity.
View full descriptionStrand: 2. The History of Ireland
Strand unit: 1. Pattern of Settlement & Plantations
Suggestions for use: This presentation can be used in conjunction with other resources in the 'Introduction to the Plantations' learning path.
There are key questions students need to be able to answer in the area of explorations for junior cert history
View full descriptionStrand: History (Pre 2018)
Strand unit: 3. Understanding the modern world
Suggestions for use: Overview of Exploration
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking Managing Myself
Strand: 3. The History of Europe & The Wider World
Strand unit: 2. Impact of Conquest & Colonisation on Plp
Key questions for students to answer for the Reformation
View full descriptionStrand: 3. The History of Europe & The Wider World
Strand unit: 8. Historical Importance of Religion (Reforms
Suggestions for use: Supports students to revise the topic of the reformation at the end of the topic/year.
Presentation (in pdf format) on the Munster Plantation. Suitable for a single period class lesson on the Munster Plantation. Contains a slide with a revision summary of the Laois-Offaly plantation, cartoons helping to illustrate why the Munster plantation happened and an explanation of how the plantation happened.
View full descriptionStrand: 2. The History of Ireland
Strand unit: 1. Pattern of Settlement & Plantations
Suggestions for use: Could be used with the worksheet 'Plantation of Munster' also available through the Scoilnet website.
Strand: Early Modern Ireland
Strand unit: 2 Elizabethan Ireland 1558-1603
Archived site - Considered to be one of the best sites about the Plantation of Ulster. From the BBC it covers all aspects of the causes, course and effects of the plantation. It includes an interactive map and interviews with historians.
View full descriptionStrand: Early Modern Ireland
Strand unit: 3 Kingdom v Colony 1603-1660
Strand: Politics, Conflict & Society
Strand unit: 16th and 17th Century Ireland
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
History revision notes from Colaiste Eanna. PDF contains five pages with details on the following plantations;
- Laois and Offaly 1556
- Munster 1586
- Ulster 1609
- Cromwellian
Strand: 2. The History of Ireland
Strand unit: 1. Pattern of Settlement & Plantations
Suggestions for use: Students notes to aid revision of lesson on plantations.
Key Skills: Managing Information and Thinking
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