Reference to Scots In Old Book, and My Family Brainwashing

[Cygnus]

Cork was a major centre for (mostly) English immigration at one point. It was Within The Pale. The rest of Ireland was of course Beyond The Pale. Once in my youth I tried to impress a young Irish woman with the statement that I had an ancestor from Cork and she merely sniffed and said that she wasn't surprised (the ancestor was in fact English- but she didn't have to be told that).

I'd read that before and wondered if these ancestors were English. My great^3 uncle's journal is pretty clear that they had come from Scotland with the British troops because of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (the United Irishmen Rebellion).