Trinity College Dublin was for over three hundred years one of Ireland's landowners owning 190,000 acres or 1.25% of the island, including significant estates first granted as part of the Ulster and Munster plantations . These estates were home at their peak to over 71,000 people. They were the Trinity tenants. In this paper Patrick Walsh draws on the TCD institutional archive, estate papers, and his own family history to explore their history and contemporary legacies in Trinity's daily rituals and the Irish landscape.  

Dr Patrick Walsh is Associate Professor of Eighteenth-Century History and a Fellow of  Trinity College Dublin. Together with Dr Ciaran  O'Neill he co-directs the Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Patrick is currently a visiting research fellow in the QUB centre for Public History and is writing a book on the state in eighteenth-century Ireland as well as a co-authored book with Mobeen Hussain and Ciaran O'Neill entitled Cultivating Virtue? Trinity's Colonial Legacies.