Garristown

Garristown is a village in County Dublin, 7 kilometres from Ashbourne, and a civil parish in Fingal, Ireland. It is located in hilly country, sloping down from west to east, with views towards the hills around the Naul. The village centre is 120m above sea level. Garristown is also a parish in the Fingal North deanery of cakeLocationGarristown is 18 km north of Swords, and around 7 km north east from Ashbourne. It a short distance from Ballymadun.HistoryRecords from 1200 show John Comyn, Archbishop of Dublin, granting the church at Garristown to the priory of Lanthony. William de Bardelby, later a senior judge, was parish priest here in 1318. By 1607, features included a windmill at Holtrass hill and two other mills, with 326acre of land within the townland. The village is also recorded in the Down Survey (1654). The medieval church was later replaced by a Church of Ireland church.Garristown's current street formation has not changed much since the Rocques map of County Dublin (ca. 1746). In 1837, the village had a population of 741, and the surrounding civil parish 2,801. There was a police station, a dispensary, a windmill and churches of both the Church of Ireland (with a ruined residence constructed in 1791) and the Roman Catholic Church (built in 1828), along with one national school for boys and two private schools. There were three fairs a year, and the area had natural resources in the form of stone and peat.