DONABATE

In 1868, the parish of Donabate contained the following places:

"DONABATE, a parish and post town in the barony of Nethercross, in the county of Dublin, province of Leinster, Ireland, 3 miles N.E. of Swords. It is a station on the Drogheda railway. The parish is situated on the shore of the harbour of Malahide. The soil is variable, upon a basis of limestone and porphyry. The town stands on the road from Swords to Portrane, and is said to be of Danish origin, The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Dublin, value with Portrane, £93, in the patronage of the Archbishop of Dublin. The church is situated on a neighbouring eminence, and contains a marble monument to Dr. Cobbe, the late Archbishop of Dublin. There is a Roman Catholic chapel. Near the town is Newbridge, once the residence of the Rev. Mr. Pilkington, author of a Dictionary of Painters. Within this mansion are several valuable pictures. Here are ruins of a chapel, containing monuments of the Barnewalls, ancestors of the present Lord Trimleston, whose present seat is Turvey, in this parish."

 

"KILCREAGH, a parish, in the barony of BALROTHERY, county of DUBLIN, and province of LEINSTER, 2 miles (N. E.) from Swords; the population is included in the return for Donabate, into which this parish has merged. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin, incorporated with Donabate, and in the patronage of the Archbishop; the rectory is appropriate to the economy fund of St. Patrick's cathedral: the tithes are included with those of Donabate. The church, which was very small, is in ruins."

[Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868]
by Colin Hinson ©2018