While there are some remnants of prehistoric activity,
Malahide is known to have become a persistent settlement from the coming of the Vikings,
who landed in 795, and used Malahide Estuary (along with Baldoyle) as a
convenient base. With the arrival of the Anglo-Normans, the last Danish King of
Dublin retired to the area in 1171. From the 1180s, the history of the area is
tied to that of the Talbot family of Malahide Castle, who were granted
extensive
