Portmarnock

Portmarnock
Port Mearnóg
Suburb (village core)
Portmarnock, Dublin
Portmarnock, Dublin
Map
Portmarnock is located in Ireland
Portmarnock
Portmarnock
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°25′18″N 6°08′14″W / 53.4217°N 6.1372°W / 53.4217; -6.1372
CountryIreland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyDublin
Local authorityFingal
Elevation
3 m (10 ft)
Population
 (2022)[1]
10,750

Portmarnock (Irish: Port Mearnóg) is a coastal suburban settlement in Fingal, Ireland, with significant beaches, a modest commercial core and inland residential estates, and two golf courses, including one of Ireland's best-known golf clubs. As of 2022, the population was 10,750,[1] an increase of 13.5% on the Census 2016 figure of 9,466.[2]

Portmarnock is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Coolock in the traditional County Dublin.[3]

Location

Portmarnock lies on the coast between Malahide and Baldoyle. Portmarnock could also be said to border, at sea, Sutton and perhaps Howth in the form of Ireland's Eye. Its major beach, the Velvet Strand, is monitored by a lifeguard during the summer season from early April to the start of October.[4]

Velvet Strand, Portmarnock beach

Kites in the sky on Portmarnock beach

Adjacent to Portmarnock is a narrow beach which extends onto a sandy peninsula with beaches on all sides. Portmarnock's beach is nicknamed the Velvet Strand due to the smooth sand along the beach, and is popular with wind- and kite-surfers.[5]

Southern Cross monument

The beach was the starting point for two important pioneering flights. On 23 June 1930, Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew took off in the Southern Cross on the second westbound transatlantic flight (to Newfoundland), after which they continued on to Oakland, California, completing a circumnavigation of the world. The first solo westbound transatlantic flight began from Portmarnock beach when Jim Mollison, a British pilot, took off in a de Havilland Puss Moth on 18 August 1932 bound for Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick, Canada.[6]

The sculpture Eccentric Orbit (by Rachel Joynt and Remco de Fouw, erected 2002) on the seafront is of limestone, bronze and stainless steel. The needle points to the North Star, an age-old navigation point. The sculpture commemorates the epic flights of the Southern Cross (the second non-stop east–west North Atlantic flight, in 1930), the Heart's Content (the first east–west non-stop solo North Atlantic flight, 1932) and the abandoned solo North-Atlantic flight of Faith in Australia (1933).[7]

Portmarnock is home to one of the 29 Napoleonic Martello Towers in the Greater Dublin Area.[8]

Etymology and history

The district's name derives from the Irish word port – meaning "port" – and Saint Marnoch or Mernoc, said[7] to have arrived in what is now Portmarnock in the fifth century AD.

The area had been settled in Neolithic times, as evidenced by flints and other tools excavated on the northern fringe of Portmarnock and the remains of a ring fort visible from the air at the south of the town. The son of Queen Maedhbh of Connaught – Maine – is also said to have been buried locally.[9]

During the Irish War of Independence Michael Collins stayed at the Portmarnock house of Moya Llewelyn Davies, using it as a safe house.[10]

In February 1988 An Garda Siochana discovered a Provisional IRA arms cache at Station Road. 30 AK-47s, 3 machine gun tripods, 12 RPGs, 31,000 rounds of ammunition and 227 kg of Semtex was discovered.[11][12]

Transport

Portmarnock is on the northern commuter railway line out of Dublin (also the Dublin–Belfast line); Portmarnock railway station, opened on 25 May 1844,[13] is now on the DART network.[14] The village is served by Dublin Bus routes 102, 32, 32X, 42, 42N (Nitelink) and 142.[15] Owing to its proximity to Dublin city, it is a form of dormitory village 15 km (9.3 mi) north-northeast of the city centre.

Education

There are two primary schools – St. Marnock's and St. Helen's – and also a secondary school, Portmarnock Community School.[16]

Religion

Situated on the coast of Portmarnock are the ruins of the old Saint Marnock's Church, with an adjacent cemetery.[17][18] Today, Portmarnock holds a Roman Catholic parish and the church of St Anne.[19] The Church of Ireland parish of Portmarnock was united with Malahide in 1873, and the newer St Marnock's Church, consecrated in 1790, operated up until 1960;[20] parishioners are now served by churches in Malahide and north of Balgriffin.

Sport

Portmarnock is famous for the world-class golf course at Portmarnock Golf Club, which formally opened on 26 December 1894. Occupying much of the sandy peninsula to the south of the village, the club has hosted many golf tournaments, including the 1960 Canada Cup (now known as the World Cup), the 1991 Walker Cup and the Irish Open on many occasions. Another links course, part of the Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links complex, that opened in the 1990s, was designed by German golfer Bernhard Langer.[21] That golfing hotel is built around St. Marnock's, the former home of a branch of the Jameson distilling family, which had its own private golf course.[22] St. Marnock's was largely built in the late 1890s to the designs of British architect Sir Robert Lorimer.

Naomh Mearnóg is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.[23]

Other local sports clubs include Portmarnock Tennis Club, Portmarnock A.F.C., AUL Premier A side Seaview Celtic F.C., and the Portmarnock Sport & Leisure Club which encompasses 16 sporting activities and holds a swimming pool with some public access hours.[citation needed]

Portmarnock Pitch & Putt Club was founded in 1958 and moved to its current location in 1961. It has been affiliated to the Pitch and Putt Union of Ireland since its foundation in 1961 and is currently a members club with over 400 adult and 120 under-16 members in 2023.[citation needed]

Representation

Portmarnock lies in the Dublin Fingal[24] Dáil constituency and in the modern administrative county of Fingal.[25] Before 2016 it was in the Dublin North-East constituency.[26]

Notable people

  • Eamonn Andrews, the broadcaster, lived in Portmarnock from 1969 to his death in 1987.[27]
  • Oisin Fagan, Irish boxer, lived in Portmarnock[28]
  • Ian Garry, mixed martial artist and former Cage Warriors welterweight champion, was born and grew up in Portmarnock.[29]
  • Brian McFadden, musician and former Westlife singer, lived in Portmarnock until 2004, when he emigrated to the UK with his Australian then-fiancée Delta Goodrem.[30]
  • Laurence O'Neill, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Senator and TD[31]
  • Stephen Ward, international footballer, grew up in Portmarnock.[32]
  • Marty Whelan, radio and television personality, lived with his family in Portmarnock for 25 years before relocating to the nearby village of Malahide.[33]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Interactive Data Visualisations: Towns: Portmarnock". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 26 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Sapmap Area: Settlements Portmarnock". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  3. ^ Placenames Database of Ireland - Portmarnock civil parish, logainm.ie; accessed 11 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Velvet Strand (Portmarnock), Co. Dublin". www.blueflagireland.org. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Portmarnock - The Velvet Strand Blue Flag Beach & Green Coast Award 2016". www.visitdublin.com. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Mollison's Atlantic Flight". Flight. 26 August 1932. p. 795. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  7. ^ a b "Portmarnock Community Association".
  8. ^ Burns, Veronica (31 January 2022). "PORTMARNOCK MARTELLO TOWER".
  9. ^ https://consult.fingal.ie/en/system/files/materials/22117/Fingal%20County%20Council%20-%20Racecourse%20Park%20Environmental%20Report.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  10. ^ Patrick Moylett (16 December 1952). BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 767. Bureau of Military History. p. 47.
  11. ^ O'Brien, Brendan (1995). The Long War The IRA and Sinn Féin, 1985 to Today. Syracuse University Press. p. 150.
  12. ^ Oppenheimer, A.R. (2008). IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets A History of Deadly Ingenuity. Irish Academic Press.
  13. ^ "Portmarnock station" (PDF). Railscot – Irish Railways. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
  14. ^ See rail transport in Ireland for more.
  15. ^ "Timetables - Dublin Bus".
  16. ^ "Portmarnock Community School | Pobal Scoil Phortmearnóg (01) 8038056 40th Anniversary 2019". www.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie.
  17. ^ "St Marnock's cemetery work". independent.ie.
  18. ^ "Pump in the middle of Ignatius Byrne's field, Portmarnock". National Library of Ireland. 18 February 1976.
  19. ^ "Saint Anne's Parish Portmarnock". Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  20. ^ Saint Marnock’s Church History, Visit Portmarnock.
  21. ^ "Portmarnock Golf Links | A Championship Golf Course In Co Dublin". www.portmarnock.com.
  22. ^ "History of Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links, Dublin | Whiskey Tasting". www.portmarnock.com.
  23. ^ "Naomh Mearnóg". Naomh Mearnóg.
  24. ^ Book (eISB), electronic Irish Statute. "SCHEDULE". www.irishstatutebook.ie.
  25. ^ "Interactive Map of Fingal". Fingal County Council. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  26. ^ Kelleher, Jason. "Irish Political Maps: Constituencies of Ireland, 2016 -".
  27. ^ "TV star Eamonn Andrews loved Portmarnock home". Independent.ie. 23 September 2004.
  28. ^ "Cinderella Man of Dublin". Irish Independent. 29 November 2008. Archived from the original on 3 December 2008.
  29. ^ Byrne, Andrew (30 July 2019). "Watch Irish fighter's duet with grandad who has dementia sing 'Imagine'". Irish Mirror. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  30. ^ "Brian McFadden: Meeting Vogue was a real life changer... we make each other laugh". Belfast Telegraph. 2 April 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
  31. ^ Morrissey, Thomas J. "O'Neill, Laurence". Dictionary of Irish Biography.
  32. ^ "Stephen hits new heights at Euros". Irish Independent. 2 July 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  33. ^ "Marty Whelan: 'I never sowed my wild oats with other women because I sowed my wild oats at home with Maria'". The Independent. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
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