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{{Short description|Suburban village of County Dublin, Ireland}}
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'''Donabate''' ({{Irish place name|Domhnach Bat}})<ref>[https://archive.today/20130412223120/http://www.logainm.ie/Viewer.aspx?text=donabate&streets=yes Origin of name Donabate on Logainm.ie]</ref> is a coastal [[suburb]]an village in [[County Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], about {{convert|21|km|miles|abbr=off}} north-northeast of [[Dublin]], within the [[Local government in the Republic of Ireland|local government area]] of [[Fingal]].<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/fingal/donabate-strategy-unveiled/27798548.html | work = independent.ie | title = Donabate strategy unveiled | date = 9 December 2009 | accessdate = 22 August 2025 | quote = designated as an 'expanding suburban village centre' }}</ref><ref>{{cite report | url = https://www.fingal.ie/sites/default/files/2019-04/Donabate%20Urban%20Centre%20Strategy%20Text_0.pdf | publisher = Fingal County Council | website = fingal.ie | title = Donabate Urban Centre Strategy | date = June 2010 | accessdate = 22 August 2025 | page = 5 | quote = Donabate is designated as an 'Expanding Suburban Village Centre' in the County Retail Strategy }}</ref> It is on a peninsula on Ireland's east coast, between the [[Rogerstown Estuary]] to the north and Broadmeadow Estuary to the south. Donabate is a [[Civil parishes in Ireland|civil parish]] in the ancient [[Barony (Ireland)|barony]] of [[Nethercross]].<ref>[https://www.logainm.ie/842.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland] - Donabate civil parish</ref>

==Geography==
The Portrane–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, County Dublin|Rush]] South Beach but for a narrow channel entering the [[Rogerstown Estuary]]. A stretch of low limestone cliffs to the south of Portrane beach leads to Balcarrick<ref name="BalcarrickB">{{Cite web |title=Balcarrick Beach |url=https://www.fingal.ie/trips/balcarrick-beach |access-date=2023-08-27 |website=Fingal County Council |language=en}}</ref> or Corballis 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 makes the estuaries important wildlife habitats and both are protected under the international [[Ramsar Convention]].<ref>Ramsar Convention {{cite web |url=http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_ireland.htm |title=The Annotated Ramsar List: Ireland |access-date=2009-06-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629164301/http://www.ramsar.org/profile/profiles_ireland.htm |archive-date=2008-06-29 }}</ref>
[[File:Broadmeadow swans.JPG|thumb|Mute Swans in the Broadmeadow estuary Donabate]]

==History==
The 1911 census recorded that Donabate had a population of 734 people who lived in 150 dwellings. It remained a small village for more than a century. In later years, the area's access to the capital city of [[Dublin]] has improved with upgraded roads and the re-opening of a former railway station. The [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|census]] of 1996 recorded that the population was 1,868; by the time of the 2002 census it had doubled to 3,854. The [[2022 census of Ireland|2022 census]] recorded a population of 9,669.<ref name="cso2022"/>

''Donabate & Portrane - a history'', first written and published in 1988 and revised 2001, includes information on the beginnings of Donabate around the 7th century AD, the building of Lanistown Castle (likely in the 14th century) and Newbridge House (between 1698 and 1705) and the subsequent purchase of the estate by the Cobbe family in 1736. In 1846, Charles Cobbe forwarded a petition for the establishment of a relief committee during the Great Famine.<ref>{{citation |title=Donabate & Portrane - a history|last=Bates|first=Peadar|year=2001| publisher = Bates }}</ref>

In July 2022, a tunnel was found by accident in the Corballis area of Donabate, on land subject to a planning application later granted in November 2022,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dublingazette.com/dublinlocalmatters/corbalis-east-donabate-souterrain-aledo-55599/ |title=Developers commit to preserving important archaeological site in Donabate|date=19 November 2022 }}</ref> when a farmer turned a stone on his field. The stone covered the entrance of a chamber and a tunnel, possibly dating from the early medieval period, 7th century AD to about 1100 AD.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/fingal/ancient-lost-chamber-uncovered-on-corballis-site-in-donabate/41854332.html |title=Ancient 'lost' chamber uncovered on Corballis site in Donabate|date=20 July 2022 }}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dublinpeople.com/news/northsideeast/articles/2022/08/26/donabate-archaeological-risk-of-losing-protection/?amp=1 |title=Donabate archaeological find at risk of losing protection|date=26 August 2022 }}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishcentral.com/news/ancient-underground-tunnel-valdalized-dublin-suburb |title=Ancient tunnel vandalized just one month after discovery in Dublin suburb|date=21 August 2022 }}</ref>

In 2024, Glenveagh Homes began to construct 112 new homes in an estate named Ballisk Park.<ref>{{cite web | title=Ballisk Park &#124; Affordable new homes in Donabate, County Dublin | url=https://glenveagh.ie/developments/affordable-ballisk-park }}</ref>

==Representation==
The Donabate–Portrane peninsula is in the [[local electoral area]] of [[Rush, County Dublin|Rush]]–[[Lusk, County Dublin|Lusk]], which elects five councillors to [[Fingal County Council]]. Donabate is in the [[Dáil constituency]] of [[Dublin Fingal East]] which elects 3 TDs to [[Dáil Éireann]]. This was changed in the [[2024 Irish general election|2024 general election]] from the 5 seat [[Dublin Fingal]] constituency.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/elections-2024/fingal-east-election-2024-who-are-the-candidates-and-who-could-make-gains-everything-you-need-to-know-before-voting/a1927484560.html | work = Irish Independent | title = Fingal East Election 2024: Who are the candidates and who could make gains? Everything you need to know before voting | date = 8 November 2024 | accessdate = 22 August 2025 }}</ref>

Donabate Portrane Community Council is the community council for the Donabate Portrane Peninsula.{{fact|date=August 2025}}

Donabate Portrane Community and Leisure Centre opened in 2001. The town has a [[Chamber of Commerce]], Scout Group (63rd Dublin 14th Port Donabate), soccer clubs (St Ita's AFC and Portrane Athletic), a G.A.A club (St Patrick's), Karate and Tae-Kwon Do clubs, a snooker club, a Historical and Folklore Society, and a [[Tidy Towns (Ireland)|Tidy Towns]] Committee.<ref>{{cite web|title=Donabate Tidy Towns Committee |url=http://donabatetidytowns.blogspot.com/}}</ref>

==Education==
[[National school (Ireland)|National schools (primary schools)]] serving the area include Donabate Portrane Educate Together National School, St Patrick's Girls National School, and St Patrick's Boys National School. Donabate Community College VEC is a local post-primary school (secondary school). Donabate opened its first Gaelscoil primary school, Gaelscoil na Mara, in 2020.

==Religion==
Donabate was a distinct [[Ecclesiastical parish|parish]] in the [[List of parishes of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin by deanery#Fingal North|Fingal North deanery]] of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin]]. It is currently part of the grouped parishes of Donabate, Portrane and Balheary. It is served by the church of St Patrick.
[[File:Eglise RC Donabate.jpg|thumb|Donabate Roman Catholic Church]]
Other churches in the area include: Church of Ireland (St Patrick's Church), since 1968 it is part of the Group of parishes which include Swords and Kilsallaghan<ref>[http://swords.dublin.anglican.org/kilsallaghan.php St. David's Church, Kilsallaghan], Swords (St. Columba's), Donabate (St. Patrick's) and Kilsallaghan (St. David's), Diocese of Dublin and Glendalough.</ref> (Donabate having also been merged with St. Catherine's Church, Portrane, since 1835) and Donabate Presbyterian Church, which meets at Donabate Portrane Community Centre.<ref>Donabate Presbyterian Church https://www.donabatepc.org/</ref>

==Sport==

===Golf===
There are five courses on the peninsula: The Island Golf Club, Beaverstown Golf Club, Balcarrick Golf Club, Donabate Golf Club (a 27-hole course) and Corballis Links Golf Club (a public course). The peninsula was once home to a sixth club, Turvey Golf Club, situated on the former [[Turvey House, County Dublin|Turvey estate]], that has since closed. Several of these courses have views of the estuaries or the open sea, including [[Links (golf)|links]] courses such as The Island, which is ranked as one of the top 20 courses in Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|title = Golf Digest Ireland | url = http://www.golfdigest.com/ | website = golfdigest.com }}{{nonspecific|date=August 2025}}</ref>

===GAA===
The local [[Gaelic Athletic Association]] (GAA) club, [[St Patrick's GAA (Donabate)|St Patrick's GAA]] or ''Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Naomh Pádraig'', dates from 1924. It has a membership of over 300 {{As of|2009|lc=y}}.<ref>St. Patrick's GAA, Donabate http://stpatsgaa.com/</ref> The club plays at Robbie Farrell Park,
Ballymastone in Donabate. Gaelic football and hurling are played at adult level as well as at under-age levels from an expanding nursery section. The club colours are green and black.{{fact|date=August 2025}}

===Football===
St. Ita's Athletic Football Club (AFC) has been active in Donabate/Portrane from the early 20th century. As of the early 21st century, they play in the Leinster league and field several underage teams.<ref>{{cite web |work = Soccer Ireland |url = http://www.soccer-ireland.com/dublin-football-clubs/st-itas-afc.htm |title = St Itas AFC |date = 5 January 2023 |access-date = 20 October 2022 |archive-date = 30 January 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230130181445/https://www.soccer-ireland.com/dublin-football-clubs/st-itas-afc.htm |url-status = dead }}</ref> The main pitch is the grounds of the [[St. Ita's Hospital]] and they also play on pitches in [[Portrane]] and Ballymastone. The club's colours are green and white.<ref>{{cite web|title = St. Ita's AFC | url = https://stitasafc.com/ |website = stitasafc.com}}</ref>

===Water sports===
[[File:Kite surfer donabate.png|thumb|upright|Chasing a kite on Corballis Beach]]
[[Kayaking]], [[sailing]] and [[wind surfing]] are undertaken at Balcarrick / Corballis beach and in the Broadmeadow estuary.{{fact|date=August 2025}} There are also marinas in nearby Rush and Malahide.  The use of jet skis and fast powerboats is restricted by law in the estuaries and beaches and regulated by permit.<ref>{{cite web | title = Fingal County Council: Bye-laws 2006 regulating recreational craft (incl. fast powerboats) and personal watercraft (jet-skis) | website =fingalcoco.ie |url =  http://www.fingalcoco.ie/Environment/BeachesinFingal/ByeLaws2006RegulatingRecreationalCraft/FileDownload,20659,en.doc | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110722161216/http://www.fingalcoco.ie/Environment/BeachesinFingal/ByeLaws2006RegulatingRecreationalCraft/FileDownload,20659,en.doc |archive-date=22 July 2011 }}</ref>

Both Balcarrick / Corballis and Portrane beaches are staffed by lifeguards during the summer months. In 2009, [[Portrane]] beach was among several Irish beaches to lose its blue flag status due to poor water quality,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper = The Irish Times | title = Four Beaches Lose Blue Flag Status |url = http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0603/breaking44.htm}}</ref> but subsequently regained blue flag status and from 2011 to 2015.<ref>{{cite web | title = Splash is the national bathing water information website for identified bathing waters around Ireland - Portrane Beach Status |url = http://splash.epa.ie/#idbw/IEEABWC020_0000_0200}}</ref> Corballis / Balcarrick beach has an area used by naturists.<ref name="Natur">{{Cite web |title=Leinster |url=https://irishnaturism.org/leinster/ |access-date=2023-08-27 |website=Irish Naturist Association |language=en}}</ref>

===Hockey===
Portrane Hockey Club was founded in 1919 and fields [[Field hockey|hockey]] teams in the Leinster senior league. The club suffered from the introduction of compulsory synthetic pitches in the 1990s as they were unable to continue using their grass pitch in [[St. Ita's Hospital]].{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} However, the club remained active and an all-weather pitch was reportedly opened in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/fingal/portrane-making-their-pitch/27812945.html | website = independent.ie | title = Portrane making their pitch | date = 11 October 2011 }}</ref>

===Other sports===
In equestrianism, the [[Field hunter|hunter trials]] of the Ward Union Hunt are held at Corballis Farm in Corballis Donabate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wardunionhunt.ie/HunterTrials.html |title=Ward Union Hunt / Hunter Trials |access-date=2009-06-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090329091425/http://www.wardunionhunt.ie/HunterTrials.html |archive-date=2009-03-29 | website = wardunionhunt.ie }}</ref> The area also has a [[tennis]] club, Donabate Portrane Tennis Club, near Donabate Golf Club.<ref>{{cite web|title = Donabate Portrane Tennis Club | url = https://www.donabatetennis.com/ | website = donabatetennis.com }}</ref>

The cliffs between Donabate and [[Portrane]] are known as a site for [[bouldering]].<ref>Bouldering Ireland http://www.theshortspan.com/features/boulderinginireland.htm</ref>

==Culture==

===Newbridge Estate===
[[File:Newbridge house donabate.jpg|thumb|upright|Newbridge House, Donabate]]
Donabate has a fine historical "Big House and Estate" at [[Newbridge Estate]]. Newbridge House is a Georgian mansion built for [[Charles Cobbe]], [[Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)|Archbishop of Dublin]] in 1736. It sits on {{convert|370|acres|0|abbr=on}} of eighteenth-century landscaped parklands with perimeter woodland belts and fine vistas across lawns and wildflower meadows. The grounds also include a late medieval castellated tower house named [[Newbridge Estate#Lanestown Castle|Lanestown Castle]]. The estate was bought by [[Fingal County Council]] in a unique arrangement with the [[Cobbe family]] in 1985 and is now a public park, playground and model farm, while the family continue to maintain an apartment within the main building on a part-time basis.<ref>Fingal County Council, Parks and Heritage, Newbridge House http://www.fingalcoco.ie/CommunityRecreationandAmenitiesDepartment/Parks/ParksHeritageProperties/NewbridgeHouse/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614020925/http://www.fingalcoco.ie/CommunityRecreationandAmenitiesDepartment/Parks/ParksHeritageProperties/NewbridgeHouse/ |date=14 June 2009 }}</ref> The park also contains playing pitches used by local sports clubs.{{fact|date=August 2025}}

Newbridge House was a location for the 1965 film ''[[The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)|The Spy Who Came in from the Cold]]''.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059749/locations Internet Movie Database: ''The Spy who Came in From the Cold'': Locations]</ref> In 2009 a previously unrecognised rare portrait of William Shakespeare was found to have been hanging in the drawing-room of the house.<ref>''The Irish Times'' 'Shakespeare' portrait hung for years in Irish big house http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0310/1224242572504.html</ref>

The [[Newbridge Estate#Estate and Farm|Farm at Newbridge]] is located to the west and north of Newbridge House and beside the walled garden. Between 1989 and 1990, the County Council Parks Department undertook the renovation, reconstruction and restoration of the courtyard, haggard and adjoining buildings. A number of farm animals and fowl are now housed here, including several rare or show breeds, and it is operated as a visitor attraction.{{fact|date=August 2025}}

=== Transition Town Donabate Portrane ===

Donabate's "Transition Town" movement have run a number of projects in the Donabate area. These include a local weekly food market and developments to change the disused [[St. Ita's Hospital|St. Ita's]] Gardens & Farm into a working community farm and orchard.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ttdp.ie |title=Transition Towns Donabate Portrane |access-date=2014-01-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108213149/http://ttdp.ie/ |archive-date=2014-01-08 }}</ref>

==Wildlife==
In 2008, [[Fingal County Council]] published a plan to develop a large wildlife park and natural amenity that would span both sides of the [[Rogerstown Estuary]].<ref>Fingal Independent: Plans to Transform Rogerstown Estuary https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/fingal/plans-to-transform-rogerstown/27788263.html</ref> Fingal Parks Department gave a summary of some of the features of the plan as:

<blockquote>
The proposed development will include new entrances, a car park with 120 car parking spaces, 250 allotments,
{{convert|3|km|0|abbr=on}} of walkways, a new bridge adjacent to the railway bridge, woodland and hedgerow planting, hay meadows,
reintroduction of cattle to graze the grasslands and interpretative facilities.<ref>Fingal Parks Department: 'Nature on Display' Plans for Turvey Wildlife park and natural amenity http://www.fingalcoco.ie/CommunityRecreationandAmenitiesDepartment/Parks/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603235554/http://www.fingalcoco.ie/CommunityRecreationandAmenitiesDepartment/Parks/ |date=3 June 2009 }}</ref></blockquote>

The plan, as published in 2008, included: bridges over the estuary; pedestrian links with Newbridge and the village; parking facilities; allotments; look-out towers; a new park on the old [[baleally]] landfill on the north side of the estuary; picnic areas; and {{convert|8|km|0|abbr=off}} of woodland and grassland trails.{{update-inline|date=August 2025}}

<gallery mode="packed">
File:Lambay_from_donabate_portrane.jpg|Lambay from the Donabate Portrane Cliff Walk
File:Sea_creature_donabate_beach.jpg|Donabate Beach
File:Broadmeadow_estuary_sunset.jpg|Broadmeadow Estuary in Winter
File:Smyths_Pub_Donabate.jpg|Smyths Donabate village
</gallery>

===Rogerstown Estuary===
[[Rogerstown Estuary]] is an important wetland habitat. It has several designations in recognition of this including that of [[Statutory Nature Reserve]]. [[BirdWatch Ireland]] owns land on both the north and south shores of the inner estuary and played a large role in preserving the area in its natural state in spite of its proximity to large urban areas by purchasing tracts of land and entering into management agreements with the Council and landowners.<ref>[[BirdWatch Ireland]] Fingal: [[Rogerstown Estuary]] {{cite web|url=http://www.bwifingal.ie/rogerstown_project.htm |title=Rogerstown Estuary |access-date=2009-06-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118184117/http://www.bwifingal.ie/rogerstown_project.htm |archive-date=2007-11-18 }}</ref> The Fingal Branch of [[BirdWatch Ireland]] operates two hides in Rogerstown which are wardened at weekends during certain times of the year.

===Broadmeadow Estuary===
Broadmeadow Estuary, like the [[Rogerstown Estuary]], is designated a  [[Special Area of Conservation]] (SAC) and [[Special Protection Area]] (SPA).<ref>National Parks and Wildlife Services: Conservation Sites {{cite web|url=http://www.npws.ie/en/ConservationSites/ |title=National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) - WebsiteConservation Sites |access-date=2009-06-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071217232638/http://www.npws.ie/en/ConservationSites/ |archive-date=2007-12-17 }}</ref> The estuary has an internationally important population of Brent Goose and nationally important populations of other species of birds.{{fact|date=August 2025}}

==Transport==

===Rail===
[[File:Donabate - County Dublin.jpg|thumb|Donabate train station signage]]
[[Donabate railway station]], in the centre of the town, is on the [[Belfast–Dublin line]] and is served by Northern Commuter line trains between [[Dublin]] and [[Dundalk]]. The [[Transport 21]] infrastructure plan envisaged electrification north of [[Malahide]] and through Donabate as far as [[Balbriggan]] by 2015, though this was subsequently indefinitely deferred.{{fact|date=August 2025}}

===Viaduct collapse===
{{Main|Broadmeadow viaduct}}
On 21 August 2009 the 18:07 train from [[Balbriggan railway station|Balbriggan]] to [[Dublin Connolly railway station|Connolly]] was passing over the viaduct when the driver noticed subsidence and the embankment giving way on the northbound track.<ref name="it-22-Aug-2009-tracks-closed">[https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0822/1224253080907.html Tracks to be closed for several weeks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018082106/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0822/1224253080907.html |date=18 October 2012 }}, [[The Irish Times]], 22 August 2009</ref> The train passed over the bridge before it collapsed and the driver alerted authorities.<ref name="it-22-Aug-2009-tracks-closed"/> This was later determined to be caused by [[Bridge scour|scour]]<ref>[[New Civil Engineer]] https://www.newcivilengineer.com/archive/scour-revealed-as-cause-of-irish-bridge-collapse-03-09-2009/</ref> A catastrophe was avoided but commuters faced significant subsequent disruption. A bus service was added between Donabate and Malahide train stations to facilitate passenger transport.{{fact|date=August 2025}}

===Road===
The [[R126 road|R126]] regional road, connecting Portrane to the [[R127 road|R127]] and the [[M1 motorway (Republic of Ireland)|M1 motorway]], runs through the town. [[Go-Ahead Ireland]] service 33B from [[Swords, County Dublin|Swords]] to [[Portrane]] and [[Dublin Bus]] service 33D from [[The Custom House|Custom House Quay]] to [[Portrane]] serve Donabate. During the morning peak times some service 33 routes serve Donabate.

Owing to the proximity of the area to [[Dublin|Dublin city]], [[Dublin Airport]] and major national road networks, the area houses [[Tesco Donabate Distribution Centre]] which is the eleventh largest building in the world by usable volume.

==Notable people==
*[[Frances Power Cobbe]]
*[[Conor Grant (footballer, born 2001)|Conor Grant]], Irish footballer for [[Milton Keynes Dons F.C.]]
*[[Paddy Neville]] (1920–1977), sportsman
*[[Stephen Rea]]

==See also==
* [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

==References==
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[[Category:Towns and villages in Fingal]]
[[Category:Spits of Europe]]
[[Category:Civil parishes of the barony of Nethercross]]
[[Category:Townlands of Fingal]]
[[Category:Nethercross]]