Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Malahide

Malahide, coast par. and vil. with ry. sta., in co. and 9 miles N. of Dublin - par., 1130 ac., pop. 1189; vil., pop. 670; P.O., T.O.; has oyster fisheries, and is resorted to in summer by the Dublin people. In vicinity is Malahide Castle, seat of Lord Talbot de Malahide, whose ancestor was granted the estates by Henry II. in 1174; also the ruins of Malahide Abbey.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "coastal parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Dublin IrlC
Place: Malahide

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