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Townland

Donabate

Domhnach Bat

The original census distinguishes this eighty-acre townland from the much larger Donabate electoral division.

Recorded locationDonabate53.48158° N · 6.15632° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

domhnachchurch

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Domhnach Bat · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Donabate · English · main form

Place & story

The townland’s own census line

Donabate townland had thirty-five inhabitants in 1911, eighteen male and seventeen female. Thirteen of its eighteen houses were occupied and five were empty. The comparison columns record fifty-one inhabitants in 1891 and seventy-nine in 1901. Its area was given as eighty acres. The report lists it in Donabate parish and Nethercross barony, within the Swords dispensary district and Balrothery Poor Law Union. [2]

A larger electoral division

Donabate electoral division contained 2,508 inhabitants in 1911, including people in several other townlands and Portrane parish. Portrane Demesne’s return included inmates of the district asylum. The electoral division’s population therefore describes a much wider area and institutional community than the thirty-five people on Donabate townland’s own line. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Dublin
Civil parish
Donabate
Coordinates
53.48158, -6.15632
Mapped area
0.32 km²
Logainm ID
1411861 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1911 census

36People recorded
13Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Carolan 7
  • Smith 5
  • Bates 4
  • Bissett 3
  • Lee 3
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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Donabate. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Dublin, Table VII, printed page 13 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.