castles historical around north dublin

The castle was built around 1200 as an Episcopal manor. It is 5-sided, enclosing a courtyard of considerable size.
It is entered by a strong gateway with a porter's room on the left, and on the right a priest's room with remains of mid-13th century windows and a first floor reached by a spiral staircase.

Beyond it is a chapel of fourteenth-century date, with parts of an original tiled floor; its windows have been built up. The tower at the north end of the wall was the residence...

The history of the Talbots of Malahide stretches back virtually unbroken to 1185 when the property was granted to Robert Talbot by Prince John, Lord of Ireland.
The castle is the oldest to be continually inhabited by the same family and, apart from a period during which they were evicted by Cromwell, the Talbots lived there until 1975.
The castle has the only surviving original medieval great hall hung with an impressive collection of family portraits. It is said that 14 Talbot cousins b...

Howth Castle, an irregular battlemented structure founded in 1464, although the present fabric dates mainly from the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
The castle is not open to the public but you can visit the grounds, famous for their rhododendron gardens which boast over two thousand varieties.
Also in the castle grounds are the National Transport Museum, with its display of service vehicles including the Hill of Howth No 9 Tram; the ruined square tower of the sixteenth-cen...