Malahide Castle
- Address
- Website
- Phone
- 01-846 2184
- Price
- adult/child/student/family €7.50/4.70/6.30/18
- Hours
- 10am-5pm Mon-Sat, 11am-6pm Sun Apr-Oct, 11am-5pm Sat & Sun Nov-Mar
Lonely Planet review for Malahide Castle
Despite the vicissitudes of Irish history, the Talbot family managed to keep the castle under its control from 1185 to 1976, apart from a brief Cromwellian interlude (1649–60). It's now owned by Dublin County Council. The castle is the usual hotchpotch of additions and renovations; the oldest part is a three-storey 12th-century tower house. The facade is flanked by circular towers that were tacked on in 1765.
The castle is packed with furniture and paintings; highlights are a 16th-century oak room with decorative carvings, and the medieval Great Hall, which has family portraits, a minstrel's gallery and a painting of the Battle of the Boyne. Puck, the Talbot family ghost, is said to have last appeared in 1975.
The parkland around the castle is a good place for a picnic and, on a fine day, the best part of a visit.
Traveller reviews for Malahide Castle (1)
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Nice castle, bad tour...
grannypetz does not recommend this,
The interior of the castle is nice and the history of it interesting. BUT the organisation of the tours are terrible. You have to wait until the next tour starts and go with the group into the first room. Then somebody (not a tour guide) has to find out that there is a button to press for information. So the whole group is standing together, the voice in the speaker speaks about furniture that you have to find first and after a while you cannot follow any more because you have nobody to look at/ who points out the details in the room.
It was really disappointing and after some rooms the group has split and the information was running in a room or not...
It would be much better either to have a personal guide with a group or individual audio guides...
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Activities to book
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Dublin Bay and Malahide Castle Half-Day Tour
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