Donabate is a village in county Fingal, Ireland. It lies on a small peninsula, which it shares with the village of Portrane, about 10 miles north of Dublin. Bordering this peninsula are the Rogerstown Estuary on the north and the Malahide Estuary on the south.
The name of the village comes from its Irish language name Domhnach Bat, supposedly meaning church of the ferry.
In 1912, the village is reported to have had a population of 734 in 150 houses, and it remained a small village for more than a century. In recent years, however, because of the village's easy access to Dublin (with a train station in the village and improving roads), the population has begun growing quickly. In the 1996 census, the village's population was 1868, and by the 2002 census it doubled to 3854. By 2004 it is estimated that the population grew to around 7000, and planned rezoning and development may make it a town of 25,000 within a decade.
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