Donabate
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Donabate Domhnach Bat
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Donabate railway station
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 Donabate
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| Coordinates: 53°29′13″N 6°09′07″W / 53.487°N 6.152°WCoordinates: 53°29′13″N 6°09′07″W / 53.487°N 6.152°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | Fingal |
| Elevation | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 6,778 |
| Irish Grid Reference | O225501 |
Donabate (Irish: Domhnach Bat) is a small coastal town in Fingal, Ireland, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) north-northeast of Dublin. The town is on a peninsula on Ireland's east coast, between the Rogerstown Estuary to the north and Broadmeadow Estuary to the south. Donabate is also a parish in the Fingal North deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.
The Donabate peninsula forms a distinctive hammer-head shape. This is because each of the mouths of both estuaries surrounding the peninsula are partially closed by large sand spits stretching north to south. The northern spit contains Portrane beach which almost touches Rush South Beach but for a narrow channel entering the Rogerstown esutary. A stretch of low limestone cliffs to the south of Portrane beach leads to Donabate Beach which is the east face of the southern spit. The southern Broadmeadow estuary is likewise almost completely enclosed and is fed by the broadmeadow river. The shelter provided by the spits had made the estuaries important wildlife habitats and both are protected under the international Ramsar Convention.
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 2011 census it was 6,778.
Administratively, Donabate is in Fingal, which is also known as North 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 in the Dublin North constituency, which sends four Teachta Dála to Dáil Éireann.
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