Talk:Portmarnock
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Who is David McDonnell?!
Exactly! The reference to this unknown person should surely be removed.
Port, is the Irish for Port (same meaning as in English)
There should be a reference made to "Tamango" night club situated in Portmarnock. It has been open since the seventies and is infamous among Dubliners. Numourous celebs have been spotted in the club over the years.
The article says that recently the population has increased. Actually, the 2006 census shows that the population has decreased [http://www.cso.ie/census/documents/2006PreliminaryReport.pdf ] to 7973. This is probably due to young people moving out of their parents' houses. The new apartments have obviously not had a net impact on population decline due to the price of housing. A good example of why speculation should not be entered as fact. I have updated.--Dub8lad1 22:56, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Port = port?
I thought Port Mearnóg meant Mearnóg's BOG! But I'm no expert...(Sarah777 19:44, 3 May 2007 (UTC))
- No, that would be Portach. But it is nice to see the language question being looked at properly, something which does not happen everywhere. On the other hand, there are some good accounts, even on the northside, where I see someone has helped out with a few recently, and where Raheny features a discussion of various sources. In this case, Port is, as noted earlier above, just Port or Harbour, and the origins of Portmarnock are not in doubt.
I see a small discussion about town v village. I come from Baldoyle, which has always called itself a village. Not sure I recall much about Portmarnock but I guess it is similar. I don't think connection to the city has much to do with it. In historic terms, I think the county towns were Balbriggan, Swords and Lusk, no matter that Dublin was far away, nothing else had the name, and as a matter of reality now, I would have said Swords is a real main-street town, Balbriggan a proper rural one, and maybe Skerries qualifies. Rush, not sure, Lusk just a small village now, and Malahide, despite the high population around, ditto. Portmarnock... But does it matter? In France it is simpler, they'd all be communes, each with its own little Mayor.
194.46.136.32 21:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wikify?
Hi there, I'm just taking down the wikify box as the article is looking pretty decent now, it's certainly a big improvement from how it was back then! - Lochaber 18:01, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
- Yep. Agree. (Sarah777 22:02, 4 July 2007 (UTC))
