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Malahide
Castle is the ancestral home of the
Talbot family, who came to Ireland with the Nornans the lands were granted
to Richard Talbot or de Talbot in 1185. The Talbot's managed to keep control
of the property for nearly 800 years with just a short break during the
Cromwellian period. The main structure of the castle is fifteenth century,
but the exterior was given the Gothic facade during an eighteenth century
restoration. The castle is set in an 270 acre demesne.
The property is now Ireland's National Portrait
Gallery, run by Dublin and East Tourist Region. There is a varied collection
of paintings on loan from the National Gallery. Among these is a huge
representation of the Battle of the Boyne
(1690) by Jan Wyck, and the Battle of Ballynahinch
(1798) by Thomas Robinson, also the ward Hunt by William Osborne.
There are numerous Irish paintings
and portraits by artists such as, James Latham, William Ashford, Hugh
Douglas Hamilton, and Nathaniel Hone the elder.
Malihide
Co Dublin
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For model train entheusists
situated in the grounds id The Fry Model Railway a collection
originally built up in the 1920s and 1930s by Cyril Fry, a railway
engineer and draughtsman, with each piece assembled with the finest
attention to detail
Between 1948 and 1973 Lord
Milo Talbot laid out a twenty acre garden with over five thousand
species of plants and shrubs.
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