Portmarnock

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Portmarnock sits on a peninsula 15 kilometres northeast of Dublin city centre, caught between the Irish Sea and Baldoyle Bay. The R106 coastal road from Clontarf offers the most scenic route, while the M1 and R139 through Swords provide quicker access. Dublin Airport is just 20 minutes away via the R132. The town draws day-trippers from Dublin for its championship golf courses on natural linksland and its three-kilometre beach, where massive sand dunes reach 15 metres high and shelter the houses behind them from Atlantic winds.