Spread over 260 acres of thriving parkland of the Malahide Demesne Regional Park nearby Malahide, a quaint seaside town in Ireland located within nine miles in the north of the Dublin city, the Malahide Castle has been a private residential quarter and a well-known historic fortress for the last eight centuries. The property started in the year 1185, with the granting of the “land and harbour of Malahide” to the knight Richard Talbot, companion of Henry II in 1174 to Ireland.
It was the home of the famous Talbot family from AD 1185 to AD 1976 for almost 791 years, till the death of the last lord of the family, excluding only the time period between 1649 and 1660 with the granting of the castle to Miles Corbet by Oliver Cromwell. The first built parts of the Malahide Castle were constructed in the 12th century. Malahide Castle is adorned with attractive period furnishings and also an exquisite collection of beautiful Irish portraits mostly picked up from the National Gallery.
The Great Hall bears testimony to the history of the owners of Malahide Castle, the portraits being the narrators of the tumultuous history of Ireland. A very distressing story goes that the 14 members of the Talbot family who had their breakfast together in the morning of the commencement of 1960’s Battle of the Boyne, never returned to the castle as all died by with the arrival of the night.
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Malahide Castle endured great losses like the historic Battle of the Boyne and the Penal Laws, although the Talbot family till 1774 continued to be Roman Catholic. The private documents of James Boswell during the 1920s were found in the Malahide Castle, which were purchased by Ralph H. Isham, an American collector from Lord Talbot of Malahide, the great-great-grandson of Boswell. Malahide Castle was in due course inherited by the seventh Lord Talbot and after his demise, Rose, his sister became the owner in 1973.
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The castle was purchased by the Irish state in 1975 from Rose so that she could pay for the taxes of inheritance.
The hall of the Malahide Castle is a great venue for private banquets accommodating 30 to 76 guests. Exciting tours of the castle are conducted in a number of languages like German, French, Italian, Finnish, Spanish, Japanese and Dutch. The exclusive facilities at the Malahide Castle are comprised of a welcoming restaurant and an interesting craft shop. Facilities of bus, car and coach parking are also provided at the estate.
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