Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal

Donnybrook is a settlement in Harry Gwala District Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

Donnybrook
A building in Donnybrook
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Coordinates: 29°45′S 30°0′E
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	Harry Gwala
Municipality	Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Area [1]
• Total	15.10 km^2 (5.83 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	4,683
• Density	310/km^2 (800/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	98.4%
• Coloured	0.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.3%
• White	0.4%
• Other	0.6%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Zulu	92.8%
• S. Ndebele	1.5%
• Tswana	1.4%
• Sotho	1.1%
• Other	3.2%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	3237
Area code	039

Village some 80 km southwest of Pietermaritzburg. It was named after Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, by Robert Comrie, the owner of the farm on which it was laid out.[2]

Until the mid-1980s, it was the northern terminus of the Umzinto – Donnybrook narrow gauge railway.

References

1. "Main Place Donnybrook". Census 2011.
2. "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 141.