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Merrion Castle
Merrion Castle was a medieval castle situated in present day Mount Merrion, to the south of Dublin city centre. Built in the early fourteenth century, it was from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth century the principal seat of Viscount Fitzwilliam. After the Fitzwiliam family moved to Mount Merrion House the castle fell into ruin, and it was demolished in 1780. No trace of it survives today. It was located opposite Merrion Gates, on the site of St. Mary's Home and School for the Blind. Its location, and the modern site of St.Mary's, can be seen on historical maps. 〔http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,719626,730863,7,8〕
== Early History==
The first mention of a castle at Merrion is about 1334, when it was in the possession of Thomas Bagod, a descendant of Sir Robert Bagod, who built Baggotrath Castle about 1280.〔Ball, F. Elrington ''History of Dublin'' Alexander Thom and Co. 1902-1920 Vol. 2 p.4〕 In the late fourteenth century Merrion Castle was owned by Sir John Cruise, a leading diplomat and soldier. In the fifteenth century both castles came into the possession of the Fitzwilliam family, who became the most substantial landowners in Dublin; James Fitzwilliam, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, married Sir John Cruises's daughter. Until the late sixteenth century Baggotrath was their favoured home, for possession of which they fought a bitter private war with the Cornwalsh family in the 1440s. It was Sir Thomas Fitzwiliam, grandfather of the first Viscount, who in the reign of Elizabeth I made Merrion Castle the principal family residence.〔Ball p.8〕
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