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About Donabate

Donabate, Domhnach Bat in Irish, is a town in County Dublin, 17 km north-east of Dublin. It stands on the R126, R132 and L2136. The map gives it 5,919 buildings and 125 named streets, with 191 places named on them in 90 kinds, and 219 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 24th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.

Population
9,669, as the map records it
Where
17 km north-east of Dublin
Position
53.4864° N, 6.1486° W
Roads
R126, R132, L2136, L2170 and L6165
Governed
Dublin County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
5,919 buildings, 125 streets, 191 named places in 90 kinds
View towards Rogerstown Estuary, with grassland in the foreground.
View towards Rogerstown Estuary, with grassland in the foreground.·Julian Tarquin Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Newbridge Demense Castle (Tower House), Lanestown
Newbridge Demense Castle (Tower House), Lanestown·Marsbub, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Donabate in order

6 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1200 to 2020. That is not a history of Donabate, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

12002020Swords CastleCasino Model Railway Museum
The twelfth century
  • 1200Swords CastleCastles · 5.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryBaldongan ChurchRuins · 7.5 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century

County Dublin since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

1,458,154372,77318412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 219 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R126, R132, L2136, L2170 and L6165 running through Donabate. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 18 lines call at 78 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

6 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Donabate?
In County Dublin, in the province of Leinster, 17 km north-east of Dublin and 17 km from Dublin, on the R126, R132 and L2136.
How big is Donabate?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 5,919 buildings, 125 named streets and 191 named places, which by building count makes it the 24th largest of the 50 settlements this site covers in County Dublin.
What is there to see in Donabate?
219 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Red House, Old Post Office and Newbridge House and Demesne.
How do you get to Donabate?
18 bus and train lines call at 78 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Átha Cliath – Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Go-Ahead Ireland. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Dublin grown or shrunk?
The census counted 372,773 people in the county in 1841 and 1,458,154 in 2022.
5,919
buildings on the model
125
named streets
191
named places
90
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata. County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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