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Donnybrook| Former village, now part of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, notorious until 1855 for riotous fairs. |
Donnybrook| Town in the southwest of Western Australia, 202 km/126 mi south of Perth; population (1996) 1,600. The district experienced a brief gold rush in the early 1900s. Timber production has been significant, but this has largely been replaced by fruit growing, particularly apples, as well as cattle, dairy, and sheep farming. |
| Donnybrook was first settled in 1842 by a party of five Irishmen and their servants, who named the area after a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. These settlers abandoned the area a year or so later, and it was not until the district's roads were developed with the use of convict labour in the 1850s that the town began to flourish. |
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