What is recorded here

Castle, unclassified in Garristown, County Dublin. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin recorded one ruined castle, a thatched stone house called the Colledge of Garestowne, a garden plot, twenty-three tenements, a mill, ash trees and the parish church on lands belonging to Elizabeth Talbot, widow of John Talbot of Malahide. The manor kept Court leet and Court Baron, yet the castle itself has no marked position. A limestone hood moulding fragment in the south gable wall of a building opposite Garristown Church may have come from it.

The precise location of a castle in the townland and Manor of Garristown has not been identified. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Dublin recorded that in Garristown on the lands of Elizabeth Talbot, widow of John Talbot of Malahide, an English Papist, there was 'one ruined Castle one stone house Thatcht comonly called the Colledge of Garestowne one garden plott twenty three tenements valued by ye Jury at one hundred poundes one Mill [DU003-007----] valued (as afores[ai]d) at three poundes p[er] annum a few Ashtrees & ye Parish Church [DU003-011001-]. The premisses were a Mannor & kept Court leet & Court Baron' (Simington 1945, 17). A limestone hood moulding fragment [DU003-009----] in the S gable wall of a two-storey building opposite Garristown Church may have come from this castle. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 7 March 2023

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