evidence: The dialects of English which are spoken in the North of Ireland today are reflexes of: first of all—the language spoken by the English and Scottish colonists who planted the Province in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth Centuries; and secondly — the Irish language of the indigenous population. Planters from the South West of Scotland predominated in the North and East while English settlers from the North West Midlands and the South West of England colonised much of the remainder of Ulster, forcing the native Gael to the far West and South. [...] South Ulster English (Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh, N. Leitrim, N. Cavan & N. Louth) Mid-Ulster English (Down, N. & S. Donegal, S. Derry, Tyrone, N.Armagh, N.Fermanagh, N.Monaghan) and Ulster Scots (N. Antrim, E. Donegal, Ards Peninsula). [...] ‘The Scotch-Irish dialect boundaries in Ulster’, Patterns in the Folk Speech of the British Isles, M. F. Wakelin (ed.) (London: Athlone Press: 1972 pp. 109—39).