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Medieval castle developed as a country house · Malahide, County Dublin

Malahide Castle, near Portmarnock

For a furnished castle visit with gardens and room for a longer family day.

OpenStreetMap holds this place twice, once as a41753100 and once as way/20876550. This site treats the other record as the place, so listings show that one and it carries anything that has been checked. The page this site uses for Malahide Castle

Medieval castle developed as a country house

The story behind Malahide Castle and Gardens

The Talbot family’s long association with Malahide began in the twelfth century. Successive alterations transformed the original defended residence into the house seen today. The Oak Room and Great Hall tell more about that accumulated domestic history than the exterior alone.

What you will see

Choose a guided castle visit for the rooms and collections, then decide how much time to give the gardens and other estate attractions. The existing MyMap record covers the demesne, so the map pin identifies the estate rather than a surveyed entrance.

Malahide Castle and Gardens, Malahide, County Dublin
Malahide Castle and Gardens, Malahide, County Dublin·Daniel Keating, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Plan your visit

Ticketed castle and gardens

The operator lists daily opening from 09:30 to 17:30 and provides official tickets for the different experiences. Free on-site parking is available. Malahide village has a rail station; use the journey planner for your date and the final walk. Check tour times and inclusions before booking.

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From Portmarnock
3.1 km north-west, in a straight line
Bus stop
Blackwood Lane, Blackwoods, 1.5 km away

The map does not yet record a phone number for Malahide Castle. Anyone can add it on OpenStreetMap, and this page picks the change up at the next refresh.

Getting to Malahide Castle

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Malahide Castle is in Portmarnock, County Dublin. Routes here end at the point the map records for this place. No entrance has been verified, so the last few metres are for you to judge.

It is 3.1 km north-west of the centre of Portmarnock in a straight line. The nearest stop the map records is Blackwood Lane, Blackwoods, 1.5 km away in a straight line.
Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is St Sylvester's Sch (3583), 540 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • St Sylvester's Sch 540 m
    buses 102, 42, 42n, 102T, 102P and 142 among others
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Malahide Demesne 590 m
    buses 42 and 102C
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Hanlon's Lane 620 m
    buses 102, 42, 142, 102P, 102A and 102C among others
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Mabestown 650 m
    buses 42, 42n and 102C
    Scheduled departures from this stop
  • Hill Drive 790 m
    buses 42, 142 and 42D
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Portmarnock covers the journeys into the town itself.

Events nearby

Not at Malahide Castle. These are at other venues within a few hundred metres of it.

Other parks in Portmarnock

Nearest to Malahide Castle first, and the figure beside each one is how far it is from Malahide Castle, in a straight line. Same point, same measure.

All 118 parks in Portmarnock

Questions people ask

Where is Malahide Castle?
Malahide Castle and Gardens is in Malahide, County Dublin. Distances on this page are measured from Portmarnock in a straight line.
How do you contact Malahide Castle?
Contact Malahide Castle. Visit malahidecastleandgardens.ie.
How far is Malahide Castle from the centre of Portmarnock?
3.1 km north-west of the centre, measured in a straight line. The map above can work out the walk along the footpaths from wherever you are.
Are there other parks near Malahide Castle?
118 in Portmarnock altogether. The nearest are Malahide Castle, Chalfont Park and Casino on Dublin Road.
How do you get to Malahide Castle without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is St Sylvester's Sch, 540 m away in a straight line, and buses 102, 42, 42n, 102T, 102P and 142 among others call there, run by Go-Ahead Ireland, Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus and Nitelink, Dublin Bus. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop over real footways and the whole journey from wherever you are starting, for the day and time you choose.

Where this comes from

From the map
The name, the kind of place, the address where the record carries one, and any website, phone or opening hours shown as recorded on the map are tags on OpenStreetMap a41753100, and can be corrected there.
Worked out here
Every distance, the nearest road where the record has no address, which car park and which stop are nearest, and the order of the lists are this site’s own calculations from those records. Distances are straight lines between two points, not walks along the footpaths, and the map will route the real walk on request. A mistake in any of this is a mistake here rather than on the map.

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