SIMINGTON, Robert C. The Transplantation to Connacht 1654-58.

Dublin: Irish University Press for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1970. Small quarto. pp. xxxi, [1], 306. Red buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Very scarce.

A most valuable reference work on the Cromwellian transplantation. Included with Counties, Mayo, Galway and Roscommon is Clare. Listed are those transplanted, their original addresses, the parish, barony and number of acres of their new destination. Dr. Simington’s work which includes new archival material reveals how the forced migration worked in practice. He analyses the facts, outlining the material by county and barony, and shows that the redistribution of the transplantation had far-reaching social and economic effects which still influence certain aspects of Irish life.

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