Domhnach Míde

Domhnach Míde, meaning 'St Mide's Church,' denotes the area's deep ecclesiastical heritage. The modern suburb of Donaghmede was formed in the 1970s from farmland in Baldoyle, Coolock, and Raheny, but the underlying territory's history stretches back over a thousand years. Baldoyle, a parish in the barony of Coolock, held strategic importance as a Viking settlement in the early medieval period u...