Baile Maí Drochta

Ballymadrough is a townland in the civil parish of Donabate, situated in the Barony of Balrothery in north County Dublin. The place name derives from the Irish Baile Maí Drochta, meaning "town of the plain of the dew," a designation recorded in the Ordnance Survey Parish Namebooks by John O'Donovan in 1836. The townland occupies an area of low-lying agricultural land characteristic of the Donab...