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Junior Cycle History: Settlement and plantation

How often Settlement and plantation comes up on the History papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

Settlement and plantation, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Settlement and plantation.

(a)In whose reign did the Plantation of Ulster begin in 1609?
  1. Elizabeth I
  2. James I
  3. Mary I
(b)In the Plantation of Ulster, what were undertakers required to do?
  1. Build a new Catholic church in each town
  2. Rent their land only to native Irish
  3. Bring in English or Scottish tenants
(c)In the Plantation of Ulster, what was a bawn?
  1. A walled enclosure for defence
  2. A Scottish-style church building
  3. A small farm rented to the Irish
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(a) James I

(b) Bring in English or Scottish tenants

(c) A walled enclosure for defence

Your turn: Common Level questions on Settlement and plantation.

Common Level

Asked on 1 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2025.

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Not asked
2025Q3
2024Not asked
2023Not asked
2022Not asked

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Settlement and plantation questions

Settlement and plantation, 2 marks

Which of these Irish towns was founded by the Vikings?

  1. Galway
  2. Kilkenny
  3. Waterford
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Waterford

Vikings founded trading towns such as Dublin, Waterford, Wexford and Limerick. Galway and Kilkenny grew into towns under the Normans.

Settlement and plantation, 3 marks

Which was a long-term effect of the Plantation of Ulster?

  1. Irish becoming Ulster's main language
  2. A large Protestant community in Ulster
  3. The end of English rule in Ulster
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A large Protestant community in Ulster

Planters brought the Protestant faith, English and Scots speech and new towns. This created a separate British identity in Ulster, a long-term root of unionism and partition.

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