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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. The castle, shown in the picture, preserves the characteristics of the Plantagenet period, although it has been many times added to and otherwise "improved." The front, which is castllated towers and ivy clad buttresses, is of imposing character, and strongly recalls to the beholder the splendid days of chivalry, when the Talbots, especially during the long minority of Henry VI., distinguished themselves in the great French wars. Thomas Talbot took the side of Charles I. in 1642, and Cromwell proclaimed him an outlaw. The castle was bestowed by the great usurper on Myles Corbett, the regicide, but Charles II subsequently restored it to the Talbot family. |
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