The terms 'Old English' and 'New English' emerged in the seventeenth century to distinguish between the descendants of the Anglo-Norman settlers and the officials, soldiers, planters and other settlers who came during the Elizabethan period and later.
| 1556 | Leix-Offaly Plantation |
| 1586 | Munster Plantation |
| 1609 | Ulster Plantation |
| 1610-21 | Plantations in Wexford, Leitrim, Longford and parts of Offaly and Laois |
| 1652 | The Cromwellian land settlement begins |