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Mullach Íde

The Carnegie building combined newspaper reading downstairs with a general reading room above.

Watercolour and fine ink view of a pale garden path beside two tall palms, clipped hedges and dense summer planting.
Illustration, a palm-lined path in the Talbot Botanic Garden at Malahide, as photographed in August 2026
Recorded locationMalahide53.44493° N · 6.15244° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

mullachhilltop

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Mullach Íde · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Malahide · English · main form

Place & story

A dated façade and a later opening

The architectural inventory records Malahide’s Carnegie Free Library as built in 1909 and opened on 31 May 1911. Anthony Scott was its architect, Andrew Carnegie its patron and Lord Talbot the donor of the site. The building cost £1,000. Portmarnock brick gives its Dutch-gabled frontage a distinctive colour, while a stone plaque carries the 1909 date. The survey describes a newspaper and magazine room on the ground floor, a general reading room upstairs and a timber staircase with iron balustrading. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Dublin
Barony
Coolock
Civil parish
Malahide
Coordinates
53.44493, -6.15244
Mapped area
2.17 km²
Logainm ID
1411864 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1926 census

492People recorded
116Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Wogan 17
  • Mahon 16
  • Willoughby 12
  • Cahill 11
  • Gregan 11
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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Malahide. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Malahide Carnegie Free Library, NIAH 11344002 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. A palm-lined path in the Talbot Botanic Garden, Malahide illustration: based on a In the Talbot Botanic Garden by Marathon. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.