In the mid sixteenth Scentuary, much of Munster was xontrolled by an by an old english catholic family, The fitzgeralds of desmond.The Fitzgeralds were worried abd angry about the following things: ▪Following the Fitzgeralds and the Butler family of Ormond (Kilkenny and Tipperary)
▪The queen hadsupported Englismen known as adventurers, who were falsely trying to claim Fitzgerald land for themselves.
▪Queen Elizabeth I appointed presidents to impose English law and protestant religion over Munster.