Malahide

Malahide lies north of Dublin beside a sheltered inlet of the Irish Sea. Its castle was the seat of the Talbots, a family established here after the Anglo-Norman conquest, and the settlement grew under their long patronage. Their tenure was interrupted during the Cromwellian conquest: in 1649 their lands were seized and the castle occupied by Miles Corbet. The Talbots recovered the property after the Restoration in 1660, continuing an association between family and place that had already endured for centuries.