Donabate Hotels & Information

Donabate is a remote suburb of Dublin, Ireland. The town lies about 25 km north of Dublin city centre on a small peninsula, which it shares with the townland of Portrane. The peninsula is situated on Ireland's east coast, between the Rogerstown Estuary to the north and the Malahide Estuary to the south.

The name of the area, Donabate, supposedly means "Fort of the ferry", from D?n a' Bh?id, referring to an ancient church which is in the townsland of Ballymadrough, west of Donabate, near the Malahide Estuary. Sadly, the true meaning has become lost in the mists of time. Donabate was sometimes spelt Donaghbate.

Administratively, Donabate is in Fingal county, the northern part of the traditional area of County Dublin. The Donabate-Portrane peninsula is in the Swords ward (or local electoral area, to give it its official title). The Swords ward is numerically the largest in Fingal county and elects five county councillors to Fingal County Council. In terms of national elections, the Donabate Portrane peninsula is the Dublin North constituency, which sends four Teachta D?la to D?il ?ireann.

Donabate is reported to have had a population in 1912 of 734 persons living in 150 houses, and it remained a small village for more than a century. In recent years, however, because of the area's easy access to Dublin (improving roads and the presence of a railway station in the village), the population has begun growing quickly. In the 1996 census, the village's population was 1,868; by the time of the 2002 census it had doubled to 3,854, and by the 2006 census it was 5,499.

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