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| MALAHIDE CASTLE, COUNTY DUBLIN.-This fine castle of the Talbots stands near the village of Malahide, and commands a fine view of the picturesque island of Lambay, which rises some four hundred feet above the restless Irish sea, about three miles from shore. The Talbots, like their neighbors, the St. Lawrences of Howth, have managed to hold on to their possessions around Dublin since A. D. 1172, when Henry II. of England "granted," by the right of the strong hand, the lordship of Malahide to one Richard Talbot, brother of Sir Geoffrey, of that ilk, who had performed important service in England for Henry's mother, the remorseless Empress Maud. |
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