Once one of Dublin’s finest residences

Monkstown Castle has been owned and occupied by some of the most prominent people and establishments in Irish History. This was once the the centre of a large farm owned by the Cistercian monks of St. Mary’s Abbey in Dublin and later passed into the hands of John Travers in 1540 – The Master of the Ordnance and a Groom of the Chamber to the King Henry VIII. After the Cromwellian Invasion of Ireland it was granted to General Edmund Ludlow, Cromwell’s Master of the Horse and one of the signatories of the death warrant of Charles I. It has also been owned a wealthy trading family called The Cheevers of Dalkey and Michael Boyle, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Today many of the original buildings and halls have disappeared but you can still see the gatehouse and a large fortified three-storey tower.