These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
Port Mearnóg· Irish · main form · validated name
Portmarnock· English · main form
Place & story
A strand with an aviation history
Portmarnock’s long Velvet Strand became a departure ground for pioneering Atlantic flights in 1930 and 1932.[2]
Remembering the departures
Remco de Fouw’s Eccentric Orbit sculpture, installed in 2002, commemorates the Southern Cross flight. A limestone globe supports a bronze needle pointing towards the North Star.[2]
People & connections
The crew and the solo flyer
The Southern Cross flight brought four named aviators to the beach: Charles Kingsford Smith, navigator Paddy Saul, wireless operator John Stannage and co-pilot Evert Van Dyk. Their departure on 24 June 1930 ended at Harbour Grace in Newfoundland after more than thirty hours.[2]
Jim Mollison followed on 18 August 1932 in the single-engined Heart’s Content. Fingal County Council identifies his departure as the first solo east-to-west Atlantic crossing. The local history account places his landing at Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick, and records Amy Johnson among those seeing him off.[2][3]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Portmarnock — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Portmarnock, Fingal — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
8,979people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Portmarnock, Fingal — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Portmarnock, Fingal — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
9,145people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Portmarnock, Fingal — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Portmarnock, Dublin — Census town, CSO 1986 report
1981–1986: census town
9,055people · 1986
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Portmarnock, Dublin — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.
Portmarnock, Fingal
Published census settlement populations
9,466people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
Velvet Strand at Portmarnock illustration: based on a reference photograph by William Murphy. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; warm cream paper margins; incidental modern clutter removed and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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