1 44 Cast'lc of Malahide. 



unites the promontory of Howth to the main 

 land. The site of the castle is most happily 

 chosen both for beauty and defence ; the edifice 

 is a square building of three stories ; to the 

 west and south, it commands Howth Dublin 

 Bay and the Wicklow mountains in the back 

 ground. To the north St. George's Channel, 

 the lands of Lamboy, and Ireland's Eye. The 

 castle, which is surrounded by some very fine 

 timber, has a basement story which is entirely 

 arched, and appropriated to offices, whence a 

 spacious stone stair-case leads to the upper 

 rooms. The first of which, a principal apart- 

 ment, remains in the ancient state ; it is wain- 

 scoted with oak, ornamented with much carv- 

 ing tolerably well executed ; one compartment 

 over the chimney-piece is of admirable work- 

 manship, and must, I should conceive, be of 

 more modern date than the rest. 



There is something in objects of acknow- 

 ledged and manifest antiquity that never fails 

 to inspire respect. The lapse of years contrasts 

 eternity with our transient abode upon earth ! 

 What we admire to day, millions, have done 

 homage to before us, and probably millions will 

 continue so to do when we are gone and for- 

 gotten ! The mock antique on the contrary, 

 stamped with the architect's impression of yes r 



