Editing Howth (section)

==Built heritage==
[[Howth Castle]], and its estate, at least part of which is known as Deer Park, are key features of the area. [[Corr Castle]] also previously formed part of the estate.

===Aideen's Grave===
On the grounds of Howth Castle lies a collapsed megalithic [[dolmen]] (portal tomb), known locally as Aideen's Grave.

===Bailey Lighthouse===
[[File:Howth Lighthouse, from the Needles, Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Howth Lighthouse, from the Needles, after George Petrie]]
At the southeast corner of Howth Head, in the area known as Bail(e)y (historically, the Green Bayley) is the automated [[Baily Lighthouse]], successor to previous aids to navigation, at least as far back as the late 17th century. This is the subject of a picture, ''Howth Lighthouse, from the Needles'', by [[George Petrie (artist)|George Petrie]], which appears in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835, with an attached poetical illustration by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]].<ref>{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA30-IA8|section=picture|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}{{cite book|last =Landon|first=Letitia Elizabeth|title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Bzk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=GBS.PA33|section=poetical illustration|year=1834|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.}}</ref> At the end of the East Pier of Howth Harbour are the [[Howth Harbour Lighthouse]], built in the 19th century and no longer in service, and the pole-mounted light which replaced it.<ref name=rowlett>{{cite rowlett|irle|access-date=30 July 2020}}</ref>
{{wikisource|Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835/Howth Light-House|Howth Light-House, a poetical illustration<br />by L. E. L.}}

===St. Mary's Church===
[[File:The Abbey of Howth, with Some Account of the Family of St. Laurence and Sir John de Courcy, 1833 (IA jstor-30004288) (page 1 crop).jpg|thumb|The Abbey of Howth in 1833, ''[[Dublin Penny Journal]]]]
In Howth village are St. Mary's Church and its graveyard, overlooking the harbour. The earliest church on this site was built by Sitric, King of Dublin, in 1042. It was replaced around 1235 by a parish church, when that function was moved from the church on Ireland's Eye, and then, in the second, half of the 14th century, the present church was built. The building was modified in the 15th and 16th centuries, when the gables were raised, a bell cote was built and a new porch and south door were added. The St. Lawrence family, of nearby Howth Castle, also modified the east end to act as a private chapel; inside is the tomb of [[Christopher St Lawrence, 2nd Baron Howth]], who died in 1462, and his wife, Anna Plunkett of Ratoath.

===The College===
Also of historic interest is a building known as ''The College'' or ''The Old College'', on Abbey Street which was primarily constructed in the late 15th or early 16th century but also with earlier medieval elements.<ref>{{cite web 
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 | title =Medieval Howth home a Tudor original for €750k
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===Other structures===
{{See also|Martello towers in the Greater Dublin Area}}
Drumleck Castle on a promontory in the Censure area of Howth was formerly on the Record of Protected Structures but removed as there were no structural elements remaining above ground to warrant retention. Alternative protection remains under the National Monuments Acts 1930–2004, as a Record Monument RMP Ref No. DU019-007.