<P> But the Irish population was neither removed nor Anglicised . In practise, the settlers did not stay on poorer lands, but clustered around towns and the best land . This meant that many English and Scottish landowners had to take Irish tenants, contrary to the terms of the Plantation of Ulster . In 1609, Chichester deported 1300 former Irish soldiers from Ulster to serve in the Swedish Army, but the province remained plagued with Irish bandits, known as "wood - kerne," who attacked vulnerable settlers . It was said that English settlers were not safe a mile outside walled towns; the natives plagued the forests and wolves roamed the countryside . </P> <P> The attempted conversion of the Irish to Protestantism also had few successes; at first the clerics sent to Ireland were all English speakers, whereas the native population were usually monoglot speakers of Irish Gaelic . Later, the Catholic Church made a determined effort to retain its followers among the native population . </P> <P> In addition to the Ulster plantation, several other small plantations occurred under the reign of the Stuart Kings--James I and Charles I--in the early 17th century . The first of these took place in north county Wexford in 1610, where lands were confiscated from the MacMurrough - Kavanagh clan . </P> <P> Since most land - owning families in Ireland had taken their estates by force in the previous four hundred years, very few of them, with the exception of the New English planters, had proper legal titles for them . As a result, in order to obtain such titles, they were required to forfeit a quarter of their lands . This policy was used against the Kavanaghs in Wexford and subsequently elsewhere, to break up Catholic Irish estates (especially the Gaelic ones) around the country . Following the precedent set in Wexford, small plantations were established in Laois and Offaly, Longford, Leitrim and north Tipperary . </P>

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