Catholic landowners acquired the land.
These Protestant settlers replaced the Irish Catholic landowners who were removed from their lands.
Catholic landowners were driven here and elsewhere in the far west by Cromwell's troops in 1652-4, to small patches of barely tillable land.
However, in practice, most Catholic landowners stayed on their land as tenants and the numbers of those either transplanted or executed was small.
The Wars eliminated the last major Catholic landowners in Ulster.
A number of formerly Catholic landowners also saved their land by converting to the state religion.
Since there was simply not enough land available for this to work, very few Catholic landowners recovered their estates under this Act.
Next, Wentworth surveyed the major Catholic landowners in Leinster for similar treatment, including members of the powerful Butler dynasty.
The remaining Catholic landowners were transplanted to Connacht.
The few Catholic landowners who took the oath in 1691-93 remained protected, including their descendants.