Editing Irish Confederate Wars (section)

===Guerrilla War===
[[Image:Old-Galway.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Galway]]; the last Irish town to fall to the Parliamentarians, in 1652.]]
While formal resistance ended, the harsh surrender terms resulted in a period of [[guerrilla warfare]] by bands of former soldiers, known as [[Tóraidhe]] or 'Tories.' These operated from rugged areas such as the [[Wicklow Mountains]], looting supplies and attacking Parliamentary patrols, who responded with forced evictions and the destruction of crops. The result was widespread famine, aggravated by an outbreak of [[bubonic plague]].

The last organised Irish force surrendered in [[Cavan]] in April 1653 and given passage to France to either serve in the French army or with the [[Cavalier|English Royalist]] Court in exile. Those captured after this point were executed or transported to penal colonies in the [[West Indies]].

Ireland was plagued with small scale violence for the remainder of the 1650s, partly due to the 1652 [[Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652|Act for the Settlement of Ireland]]. This created a class of landless former farmers and dramatically altered patterns of Irish land holding, the percentage owned by Protestants increasing from 41% to 78% over the period 1641 to 1660.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bottigheimer |first1=Karl |title=English Money and Irish Land: The 'Adventurers' in the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland |journal=Journal of British Studies |date=November 1967 |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=12–27 |jstor=175378 |doi=10.1086/385542 }}</ref>