Creator(s): Frizell, Richard, fl 1775, land surveyor and cartographer
Administrative History ↴
The management of the college estates loomed large in the business of the Board. As landlords the college had to administer leases and rent renewals and the monitoring of its land, its conditions and financial implications was of utmost importance, therefore commissioning of maps of estates of college land were issued by the college Board.
Source: Trinity College Dublin, 1592-1952: An Academic History by R. B. McDowell and D. A. Webb
Archival History ↴
Institutional archives
Immediate Source Acquisition ↴
Unknown
Content & Structure
Scope & Content: Frizell, Richard, fl 1775, land surveyor and cartographer ↴
One large volume containing maps of all the estates of Trinity College Dublin, drawn up by Richard Frizell. The maps clearly distinguish arable land and in places show what would seem to be open-field strips. Buildings are carefully drawn in elevation.
The volume contains full pages of maps illustrated in pen and watercolour alongside personal descriptive remarks by Frizell about the condition and quality of the land, its requirements for improvements, its location and who occupies the land. The maps are drawn in a scale of perches per inch but scale varies according to each map. The rear of the volume contains lists of tenants names according to county, their tenure which was generally for 21 years, number of acres rented, present value of land and the total number of acres per county.
Appraisal Destruction ↴
Permanent Retention
Arrangement ↴
The volume contains an index at the front and the maps are arranged according to counties as follows:
Kerry
Limerick
Tipperary
Cork
Queen’s County (Laois)
Louth
Armagh
Longford
Donegal
Conditions of Access & Use
Access Conditions
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Conditions Governing Reproduction
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Creation Dates
1775
Extent Medium
1 large volume
Material Language Script
English
Finding Aids
Catalogued in Hermathena : A Dublin University Review vol. XCVIII, 1964 by F.H.A. Aalen and R.J.Hunter; a full list of the College maps can be consulted in the Manuscripts and Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin.
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Allied Materials
Related Material
The archives of Trinity College contain several volumes of eighteenth-century maps.
Descriptive Control Area
Archivist Note
Natalie Milne, February 2014
Rules/Conventions
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description. 2nd ed. Ottowa: International Council on Archives, 2000. National Council on Archives: Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names. Chippenham: National Council on Archives, 1997.
