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
Port Mearnóg· Irish · main form · validated name
Portmarnock· English · main form
Place & story
A strand with an aviation history
Portmarnock’s long Velvet Strand became a departure ground for pioneering Atlantic flights in 1930 and 1932.[2]
Remembering the departures
Remco de Fouw’s Eccentric Orbit sculpture, installed in 2002, commemorates the Southern Cross flight. A limestone globe supports a bronze needle pointing towards the North Star.[2]
People & connections
The crew and the solo flyer
The Southern Cross flight brought four named aviators to the beach: Charles Kingsford Smith, navigator Paddy Saul, wireless operator John Stannage and co-pilot Evert Van Dyk. Their departure on 24 June 1930 ended at Harbour Grace in Newfoundland after more than thirty hours.[2]
Jim Mollison followed on 18 August 1932 in the single-engined Heart’s Content. Fingal County Council identifies his departure as the first solo east-to-west Atlantic crossing. The local history account places his landing at Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick, and records Amy Johnson among those seeing him off.[2][3]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
View population figures
Portmarnock — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Portmarnock, Fingal
Published census settlement populations
9,466people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
Velvet Strand at Portmarnock illustration: based on a reference by William Murphy. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; warm cream paper margins; incidental modern clutter removed and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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