recorded a population of 9,669.

Having been defined as an "expanding suburban village", Donabate - in combination with neighbouring Portrane - is now defined by the local authority as a "self-sustaining growth town".

Donabate & Portrane - a history was written and first published in 1988 by Peadar Bates, a Donabate/Portrane historian. Expanded in 2001, the book includes information on the beginnings of Donabate around the 7th century A.D., the building of Lanistown Castle, probably around 1376 when the Bathe family first came

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