Malahide

A well-off coastal village north of Dublin on the Broadmeadow estuary, which the Vikings used as a base. Malahide Castle stayed with the Talbot family from 1176 to 1976, apart from a short spell when Cromwell seized it, and its demesne is now a regional park with an international cricket ground. Georgian houses remain from its days as a resort for wealthy Dubliners, and it has the highest median household income of any large census town in Ireland.

Malahide became a lasting settlement from 795, after the Viking invasions, with the Broadmeadow estuary serving as a handy base, and the last Danish king of Dublin retired here in 1170. In 1176 Henry II granted land north of Dublin to Sir Richard Talbot, and the castle grew out of that grant; the Talbots held it until 1976, except for a short period when Oliver Cromwell seized it. In 1475 Edward IV made Thomas Talbot Admiral of the port of Malahide, with power to hold admiralty courts and levy customs on goods coming in, a hereditary office confirmed by the Court of Exchequer in 1639.

By the early 19th century the village had over 1,000 people and industries including salt harvesting, with coal and building materials landed at the harbour; the population reached 1,223 in 1831. In Georgian times it grew popular as a seaside resort for wealthy Dubliners. On 31 March 1926 six people at La Mancha House were poisoned with arsenic and beaten to death and the house set on fire; the gardener, Henry McCabe, was controversially convicted and hanged. Developers began building estates around the village in the 1960s, starting with Ard na Mara in 1964, but the village core was left intact.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Malahide ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Swords · round tower · 5 km
• Lusk · round tower · 8 km
• St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton · holy well · 9 km
• Aideen's Grave · dolmen · 9 km
• St James' Church, Dublin (Church of Ireland) · holy well · 15 km
• Dublin Castle · castle · 14 km
• Baggotrath Castle · castle · 14 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• Clontarf · Good Friday 1014: Brian Boru's forces break Leinster and Dublin's Vikings — and Brian is killed praying in his tent. Now a quiet seafront suburb.
• Drumanagh promontory fort · A headland fort that has yielded Roman coins, brooches and pottery — the strongest evidence of a Roman trading post (or a Romanised Irish king) in Ireland.

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