Dirty Old Towns…
Most of the date used on this site is from the Census – but a recent interesting litter survey was published on all towns in Ireland with more than 6000 population.
The littering survey ranked the 50 towns in order of cleanest first, The full table is shown below (From the Irish Business Against Litter). Sligo came out worst (dirtiest) and Dundalk came out the best (cleanest)
1. Dundalk “Litter Free”
2. Cavan “Litter Free”
3. Fermoy “Litter Free”
4. Trim “Litter Free”
5. Killarney “Litter Free”
6. Monaghan “Litter Free”
7. Carlow “Litter Free”
8. Galway City “Litter Free”
9. Youghal “Litter Free”
10. Bray “Litter Free”
11. Letterkenny “Litter Free”
12. Ballina “Litter Free”
13. Naas “Litter Free”
14. Roscommon “Litter Free”
15. Thurles “Litter Free”
16. Drogheda “Litter Free”
17. Athy “Litter Free”
18. Waterford City “Litter Free”
19. Midleton “Litter Free”
20. Wexford “Litter Free”
21. Arklow “Litter Free”
22. Castlebar “Litter Free”
23. Swords “Moderately Littered”
24. Ballinasloe “Moderately Littered”
25. Maynooth “Moderately Littered”
26. Kilkenny “Moderately Littered”
27. Greystones “Moderately Littered”
28. Tralee “Moderately Littered”
29. Portlaoise “Moderately Littered”
30. Gorey “Moderately Littered”
31. Ennis “Moderately Littered”
32. Leixlip “Moderately Littered”
33. Longford “Moderately Littered”
34. Limerick City “Moderately Littered”
35. Cobh “Moderately Littered”
36. Clonmel “Moderately Littered”
37. Dungarvan “Littered”
38. Wicklow “Littered”
39. Tullamore “Littered”
40. Mullingar “Littered”
41. Newbridge “Littered”
42. Navan “Littered”
43. Athlone “Seriously Littered”
44. Dun Laoghaire “Seriously Littered”
45. Cork City “Seriously Littered”
46. Enniscorthy “Seriously Littered”
47. Mallow “Litter Blackspot”
48. Tallaght “Litter Blackspot”
49. Nenagh “Litter Blackspot”
50. Sligo “Litter Blackspot”
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Muslims in Ireland
The 2006 census figures show that Muslims in Ireland make up 0.767% of the population. (32539 out of a total population of 4239848)
A breakdown of religions was carried out on the Irish towns with more than 5000 people.
Of all these towns – Cavan Town has the highest percentage of Muslims in Ireland – 3.2% of the population of Cavan Town stated they were Muslims.
Top 10 Irish towns for Muslims (over 5000 population)
Cavan 3.2%
Killarney 2.95%
Ballinasloe 2.32%
Tralee 2.3%
Ennis 2.03%
Roscommon 1.87%
Balbriggan 1.75%
Portlaoise 1.67%
Castlebar 1.62%
Tullamore 1.6%
The towns with the least Muslims in Ireland are:
Dunboyne 0.035% (just 2 out of 5713)
Buncrana .068%
Youghal 0.088%
Birr 0.098%
Categories: Balbriggan, Ballinasloe, Birr, Buncrana, Castlebar, Cavan, Census, Ennis, Ireland, Killarney, Living in Ireland, People, Portlaoise, Roscommon, Tralee, Youghal Tags:
Quiet Mornings in Letterkenny
The streets of Letterkenny must be quiet in the mornings. Letterkenny has the lowest percentage of workers who leave home before 6.30am to go to work. Just 2.24% of working people in Letterkenny said that they leave the house that early . Census 2006 figures from towns with more than 5000 people – show that 154 people out of 6883 in Letterkenny – said they have to leave the house before 6.30 in the morning.
At the other end of the scale we have Edenderry in Offaly where almost 1 in 5 workers (18.84%) have to leave home before 6.30.
Other irish towns where not many workers don’t get up before 6.30
Sligo 2.62%
Killarney 2.63%
Castlebar 2.9%
Passage West 3.24%
Ballina 3.26%
Westport 3.37%
Limerick City 3.59%
Cork City 3.63%
Carrigaline 3.73%
Dungarvan 3.74%
Galway City 3.78%
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