Editing Population transfer (section)

===Ireland===
[[File:PRENDERGAST(1870) p 438 Map of Connaught, as laid out to receive the Inhabitants from the several Counties ofthe other Provinces, A.D. 1654.jpg|thumb|Map of land west of the [[River Shannon]] allocated to the native Irish after expulsion from their lands by the [[Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652]]. Note that all offshore islands were "cleared of Irish" and a belt one mile wide around the coastline was reserved for English settlers.]]
After the [[Cromwellian conquest of Ireland#Guerrilla warfare, famine and plague|Cromwellian conquest of Ireland]] and [[Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652|Act of Settlement]] in 1652, most indigenous [[Irish Catholic]] land holders had their lands confiscated and were banned from living in planted towns. An unknown number, possibly as high as 100,000 [[Irish people|Irish]] were removed to the colonies in the West Indies and North America as [[indentured servants]].<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro99.shtml ''The Curse of Cromwell''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302224034/http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro99.shtml |date=2012-03-02 }}, ''A Short History of Northern Ireland'', BBC</ref>

In addition, the Crown supported a series of population transfers into Ireland to enlarge the loyal Protestant population of Ireland. Known as [[Plantations of Ireland|the plantations]], they had migrants come chiefly from Scotland and the northern border counties of England. In the late eighteenth century, the Scots-Irish constituted the largest group of immigrants from the British Isles to enter the [[Thirteen Colonies]] before the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref>[[David Hackett Fischer]], ''[[Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America]]''</ref>