Galway was the last significant Confederate stronghold to fall, holding out until April 1652. Its surrender effectively ended organised military resistance to the Cromwellian conquest. The subsequent Act for the Settlement of Ireland (1652) confiscated Catholic-owned land across Ireland and transplanted Catholics "to hell or Connacht".
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