This morning.
The Central Statistics Office released new figures in relation to the movement of the population within Ireland.
It reports:
In April 2016, 44% of the State’s total urban population lived in Dublin, while 11% lived in Cork. Sligo was the county with the biggest change in the rate of urbanisation, increasing from 37% to 40% over the five years. Forty-one towns had a population of 10,000 or more, with 27 in Leinster, nine in Munster, three in Connacht and two in the three Ulster counties. 62.7% of the population lived in urban areas in April 2016.
37.3% of the population lived in rural areas in April 2016. The largest rural population increase was in County Cork with 6,946 persons followed by Kildare which saw its rural population increase by 4,025 persons.
Drogheda, with a population of 40,956 (up 6.2% since April 2011) remained the largest town in Ireland. Swords (39,248) and Dundalk (39,004) complete the top three. Ennis (25,276 persons) remained the largest town in Munster.
Sligo with 19,199 persons was Connacht’s largest town, while Letterkenny (19,274 persons) was the largest town in the three Ulster counties. The latter three towns experienced a slight decline in population since April 2011.
…263,551 usual residents (aged one year and over) moved in the year up to April 2016, down 3.5% on the 2011 figure of 273,239. Of these, 94,182 moved in Dublin, with 18,716 moving out of the county. The top destinations were Kildare, Meath and Wicklow. The number of households moving in the year up to April 2016 fell by 4% to 110,204.
Read the full report here
Is Tallaght not a town?
Genuine question…
No, hence all the poor planning and subsequent social problems
No, it’s counted as part of Greater Dublin.
Ah, makes sense now cheers chaps.
Is there a difference between “town” and “city”? Because I’d think Galway is bigger than Sligo?
A town is a town, whereas a city is a city. I don’t think it would be very newsworthy to tell us what cities are biggest in each province; it’s widely known.
In the old days I think that you had to have a cathedral and walls to qualify as a city. Not sure now.
you need a drug problem to be considered a city
Are you saying * insert name of perpetual nocturnal ramblings broadsheet regular here * is a city?
Heh.
I think we’re all cities here my friend
More of a mega-metropolis if you ask me.
The usual sneering, in this case, at the mentally ill, Bertie?
Who is mentally ill?
I think someone’s diagnosed Rotide of being mentally ill, and is getting offended at people laughing at this persons behaviour when someone in the internet diagnosed them with a mental illness.
I too have been diagnosed similarly.
Resistance is futile…. or something
That cenus collection lot really are above their station… had the enumerator fella call back
5 times looking for it.. told him it must have been my twin brother he was taking
to, as I was at our time share in timbuktu.
6th time around I had to tell him to sling his hook, in fairness I didn’t release the hounds until he had fighting chance of making it to the manor’s driveway gates
That’s gas about Cork. No wonder nobody leaves it. It’s PERFECT.
Nobody leaves it?? Why are we surrounded by them then?
Ah. We all come up in our 20s but most go back to settle down.
That’s like saying “I’ve been blissfully faithful to my wife for 40 years – apart from that 10 years I spent riding rings around meself “
True dat. We’re awful langers.
Or yis come and kidnap innocents to be dragged back !
They’re a ritualistic bunch. I like them, personally. The madness runs a bit freer down there.