Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal

Donnybrook
A building in Donnybrook
A building in Donnybrook
Donnybrook is located in KwaZulu-Natal
Donnybrook
Donnybrook
Donnybrook is located in South Africa
Donnybrook
Donnybrook
Coordinates: 29°45′S 30°0′E / 29.750°S 30.000°E / -29.750; 30.000
CountrySouth Africa
ProvinceKwaZulu-Natal
DistrictHarry Gwala
MunicipalityDr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Area
[1]
 • Total15.10 km2 (5.83 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total4,683
 • Density310/km2 (800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
 • Black African98.4%
 • Coloured0.3%
 • Indian/Asian0.3%
 • White0.4%
 • Other0.6%
First languages (2011)
[1]
 • Zulu92.8%
 • S. Ndebele1.5%
 • Tswana1.4%
 • Sotho1.1%
 • Other3.2%
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
PO box
3237
Area code039

Donnybrook is a settlement in Harry Gwala District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

The village is some 80 km southwest of Pietermaritzburg. It was named after Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, by Robert Comrie, the owner of the farm on which it was laid out.[2]

Until the mid-1980s, it was the northern terminus of the Umzinto – Donnybrook narrow gauge railway.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Main Place Donnybrook". Census 2011.
  2. ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 141.


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