1. The Black Death
Scotland and Ireland

2. Background Information
- Controlled by King of England
- Centre of Ireland controlled by Normans
- Normans lived in cities and towns
- Outskirts and minor parts of Ireland held
by Native Irish, the Irish therefore lived in dispersed rural settlements
- Plague began 1348 in Pale
Ireland
Background Information

3. Scotland Background Information Ruling Monarch: David II
Plague hit in 1350
Scottish army infected during
battle against English

4. Chroniclers John Clynn (franciscan friar, Ireland)
John of Fordun (Clerk of Aberdeen, Scotland)

5. Amount of Deaths John Clynn John of Fordun
Avignon, Provence about buried
Lent in Kilkenny was worst, killing eight dominicans
John of Fordun
one out of three died
Walter Bower
24 canons of St. Andrew’s cathedral died

6. Reactions to Plague
- Scotland spent first year laughing at England’s misfortune, and assembled army to take advantage of the situation
- In Ireland there was pilgrimage; as people turned to God in hope of survival
- Ireland and Scotland avoided those with symptoms
- no amount of medical knowledge to help anywhere

7. Map showing spread of Black Death