With respect to the disposal of the natives, it was arranged that the same course should be adopted as in the county of Tyrone, which was this:  some were to be planted upon two of the small proportions, and upon the glebes; others upon the land of Sir Art O’Neill’s sons and Sir Henry Oge O’Neill’s sons, ’and of such other Irish as shall be thought fit to have any freeholds; some others upon the portions of such servitors as are not able to inhabit these lands with English or Scotch tenants, especially of such as best know how to rule and order the Irish.  But the swordsmen (that is, the armed retainers or soldiers of the chiefs) are to be transplanted into such other parts of the kingdom as, by reason of the wastes therein, are fittest to receive them, namely, into Connaught and some parts of Munster, where they are to be dispersed, and not planted together in one place; and such swordsmen, who have not followers or cattle of their own, to be disposed of in his majesty’s service.’  This provision about planting the swordsmen, however, was not carried out.  The whole county of Armagh was found to contain 77,300 acres of arable and pasture land, which would make 60 proportions.  That county, as well as other parts of ancient Ireland, was divided into ballyboes, or townlands, tracts of tillage land surrounding the native villages unenclosed, and held in rundale, having ranges of pasture for their cattle, which were herded in common, each owner being entitled to a certain number of ‘collops’ in proportion to his arable land.  As these ballyboes were not of equal extent, the English made the division of land by acres, and erected boundary fences.

The primate’s share in this county was 2,400 acres.  The glebes comprised 4,650 acres; the College of Dublin got 1,200, and the Free School at Armagh 720; Sir Turlough M’Henry possessed 9,900 acres, and 4,900 had been granted to Sir Henry Oge O’Neill.  After these deductions, there were for the undertakers 55,620 acres, making in all forty-two proportions.

Number one in the survey is the estate of William Brownlow, Esq., which contained two proportions, making together 2,500 acres.  Pynar reported as follows:  ’Upon the proportion of Ballenemony there is a strong stone house within a good island; and at Dowcoran there is a very fair house of stone and brick, with good lyme, and hath a strong bawne of timber and earth with a pallizado about it.  There is now laid in readiness both lyme and stone, to make a bawne thereof, the which is promised to be done this summer.  He hath made a very fair town, consisting of forty-two houses, all which are inhabited with English families, and the streets all paved clean through; also two water-mills and a wind-mill, all for corn, and he hath store of arms in his house.’

Pynar found ‘planted and estated’ on this territory 57 families altogether, who were able to furnish 100 men with arms, there not being one Irish family upon all the land.  There was, however, a number of sub-tenants, which accounts for the fact that there was ’good store of tillage.’  Five of the English settlers were freeholders, having 120 acres each; and there were 52 leaseholders, whose farms varied in size from 420 acres to 5; six of them holding 100 acres and upwards.  This was the foundation of the flourishing town of Lurgan.