Donabate is a coastal town in County Dublin, Ireland, about 21 kilometres north-northeast of Dublin, which it serves. It lies within the local government area of Fingal.
Portrane or Portraine is a small seaside village located three kilometres from the town of Donabate in Fingal, County Dublin in Ireland. It is in the barony of Nethercross in the north of the county.
Donabate
…the mouths of both estuaries surrounding the peninsula are partially closed by large sand spits stretching north to south. The northern spit contains Portrane beach which almost touches Rush South Beach but for a narrow channel entering the Rogerstown Estuary. A stretch of low limestone cliffs to the south…