Irish Towns Guide

The town of Tipperary is behind the rest of Ireland when it comes to Information Technolgy. Census 2006 figures showed that  just 11.4% of Tipperary households had broadband and 71.84% of households had no internet access at all. This is the highest percentage of any town in Ireland  (National average 51.7%)
Also - just 36.35% of households owned a personal computer  compared  to the national average of  53.5%.
The high proportion of rented accommodation might be one of the reasons for these figures.

Ten worst towns in Ireland for IT (with population over 1500)
Tipperary
Cashel
Ballyhaunis
Roscrea
Ballaghaderreen
Bunclody-Carrickduff
Ballyjamesduff
Castlerea
Kanturk
Enniscorthy

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Dungloe  (An Clochán Liath) in Donegal is the town in Ireland with the highest percentage of single person households. Census figures show that 40.37% of households in Dungloe are occupied by just one person. (174 out of 431)

Other towns with high percentages of people living alone:

Swinford, Mayo 40.14
Manorhamilton, Leitrim 35.34
Foxford, Mayo 33.64
Boyle, Roscommon 33.47
Killorglin, Kerry 33.38
Ballybunion, Kerry 33.15
Castlerea, Roscommon 33.10
Kanturk, Cork 33.06
Kiltimagh, Mayo 32.85

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20 Most popular towns for Poles in Ireland

People born in Poland but living in Ireland numbered 96042 at the last census in 2006.
Some Irish towns have higher percentages of Polish residents than others - these are the 20 with the highest percentages of Poles

Millstreet, Cork (14.17%)
Bunclody-Carrickduff, Carlow/Wexford (9.4%)
Ballinrobe, Mayo (8.81%)
Ballyjamesduff, Cavan (8.73%)
Tullow, Carlow (8.17%)
Kingscourt, Cavan (8.12%)
New Ross, Wexford/Kilkenny (8.10%)
Macroom, Cork (7.31%)
Killarney, Kerry (7.1%)
Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim/Roscommon (6.94%)
Portumna, Galway (6.82%)
Cahir, South Tipperary (6.72%)
Monaghan, Monaghan (6.34%)
Rathcormac, Cork (5.95%)
Oranmore, Galway (5.89%)
Kanturk, Cork (5.88%)
Longford, Longford (5.57%)
Ballyhaunis, Mayo (5.44%)
Clonee Village, Meath (5.25%)
Kilcock, Kildare (5.12%)

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House Owners with No Mortgage.
People living in Rural areas of Ireland are more likely to have no mortgage outstanding on their home. In the 2006 census 46.48% of rural dwellers owned their home and had no mortgage outstanding on it.
Of the towns with a population over 1500 - it was Kilrush in County Clare that had more mortgage free residents. In Kilrush 41.7% of housing units are owned outright with no mortgage outstanding according to census returns.
Other towns with a high percentage of mortgage free owners are:
Kanturk , Castlerea, Ballyshannon, Swinford, Clones, Castleisland, Castlecomer-Donaguile. All these towns had between 40% and 41% of the homes fully paid for.
Interestingly - 4 of these towns also appear in the top six towns with the highest percentage of over 65s. Castlerea, Kanturk, Kilrush and Swinford. These towns have rates ranging from 18% to 23% of over 65 year olds
Rural Ireland though appears to have younger home owners with no mortgage debts - only 12.24% of rural dwellers are over 65 . This might be accounted for by the higher proportion of self builds in the countryside - usually on land owned by the family with lower costs.

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Rathcoole has the least children in Ireland
With just 13.66 percent of the population of Rathcoole aged 14 or less - the townt has the lowest percentage of under 15s out of all the large towns in Ireland (towns over 1500 population).
The ten towns with the lowest percentage of children under 15 are:
Rathcoole 13.66
Newcastle 13.68
Castlerea 14.25
Killarney 14.45
Portrane 15.07
An Daingean 15.10
Portmarnock 15.16
Westport 15.21
Galway City 15.41
Kanturk 15.77

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Construction Workers in Ireland

The building and construction sector accounts for 8.69% of all the employment in Ireland – according to responses in the 2006 Census.

Some towns depend much more on construction for jobs than others – and could be harder hit if the slowdown in house building continues.

Gort – in Galway has a massive 23% of it’s workforce employed in building – almost one quarter of all jobs in the town.

These are the top ten towns (with populations over 1500) for construction-based work.

Gort  23.27%

Kanturk   18.64%

Ballaghaderreen 17.95 %

Carndonagh  17.59%

Dunmanway 16.66 %

Killorglin   16.46%

Enniscorthy 15.4%

Carrick-on-Suir  15%

Duleek  14.95%

Athboy 14.8%

The town with the least people occupied in the building industry is  Annacotty – with just 3.16% of the workforce employed in the sector.

The towns of Malahide , Donabate , Portmarnock,  Kinsealy-Drinan and Shannon all had less than 5% of their workforce in the building trade.

All figures calculated from the 2006 Census – taken in May 2006

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