Quote Originally Posted by episcopalscot
The Scots sent to Ulster (Northern Ireland) were not rebels per se, at least not Jacobites -- as Casey stated, they were Protestant, mostly Calvinist/Presbyterian, and somewhat troublesome to King James VI & I, so he "killed twa birds wi' one stone" by sending them to settle the Ulster plantation.
Did the 100 or so years that the transplanted Scots hung out on "the plantation" serve to make them Scots/Irish? What I am trying to ascertain is if a person descended from these folks can claim to be of Scots/Irish descent or are they Scots alone?

Mychael