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15c. Malahide Village & Marina and Malahide Castle

Not sure what to make of this 'nautical-marine' figure near Malahide Marina!

 

Malahide Marina,  restaurant and housing complex.

 

A popular mooring location for yachts.

 

 

The centre of Malahide Village.

 

 

The crossroads in Malahide Village from which it is a short walk to Malahide Castle.

 

Malahide Castle stands in extensive grounds and dates from the 14th century..

 

The Craft Courtyard at Malahide Castle.

 

The Cafe.

 

The gardens.

 

The main entrance for tourist visitors to Malahide Castle.

 

There are spacious grounds to walk around.

 

 

The cricket grounds and pitch of Malahide Cricket Club which you pass on the way back to Malahide village ....

 

.... and onwards for a walk along the beach from Malahide marina.

 

Not that far to the open sea.

 

 A popular place for sailing and beachcombing.

 

An old medieval watch tower? now a private house.

 

Malahide village in North County Dublin, Ireland, is designated a heritage town, is a very busy places with many shops and cafes and extensive developments around the marina. Malahide Castle, dating from the 12th century, is a short walk through woodland from Malahide village, and is set in beautiful grounds which you can walk around. For a small fee there are guided tours of the Castle and the Talbot Botanic Garden. Malahide Castle has a Coffee Shop - Tea Room - Cafe - Restaurant for refreshments. In the Craft Courtyard is Tara's Palace, a Museum of Childhood with a display of dolls houses through the centuries from 1720 to 1966 and scale models of some of Dublin's greatest 18th century mansions. There is also the Cyril Fry Model Railway Museum, one of the biggest in Ireland with a marvellous display of model trains and locomotives. The Malahide Castle Demesne includes 109ha of parkland, pleasant walkways, play and picnic areas, a cricket pitch, tennis courts, a 9 hole golf course and a pitch and putt course. You can walk all the way along the coast from Malahide to the good beach at Portmarnock and get the 102 bus back!

 

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