Limerick Population 2022

Galway is still done on county boundaries, hence they can give the figures

You are right about 'former'. I'm not in Limerick.

This contains 120,639 people in April 2022

Knock yourself out:

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpr/censusofpopulation2022-preliminaryresults/

mmh???

Nope it's the dark orange and pink that represents the current Limerick City constituency from 2017 onwards. The yellow and pale yellow areas were part of the City constituency prior to 2017.

City and Suburbs comparison Census 2022: Dublin City and Suburbs population 1,263,219. Cork City and Suburbs population 222,526. Limerick City and Suburbs population 102,287. Galway City and Suburbs population 85,910. Waterford City and Suburbs population 60,079.

Limerick City Metropolitan District is now 114,692. This is broken down into: Limerick City North 36,385. Limerick City West 38,654. Limerick City East 39,653. County Limerick total population is now 209,536. County areas are broken down into: Newcastle West 29,033. Adare-Rathkeale 29,311. Cappamore-Kilmallock 36,500. Also, a general note on City and Suburb populations. They are slightly different compared to the 2016 census boundaries. For instance the Limerick City and Suburb figure includes Caherdavin/Moyross, Raheen/Dooradoyle, Castletroy/Monaleen/Ballysimon, Shannon Banks/Westbury but it excludes Annacotty, Mungret, Clarina, Meelick/Ballycannan, Parteen and Ardnacrusha. This results in a discrepency where 102,287 is the figure using the 2022 census system known as a BUA(Built-up Urban Area) which measures land cover of urban areas with an area of 61.3 sq. km, compared to 103,611 using the 2016 census definition which measures population of urban areas with an area of 59.2 sq. km. This change has resulted in Parteen no longer being counted as part of Limerick City and Suburbs hence the slightly lower figure using the BUA method. Annacotty, Mungret and Parteen immediately abut the Limerick City and Suburbs urban area but are counted separately as their own urban areas. Clarina, Meelick/Ballycannan and Ardnacrusha are more distinctly separated from Limerick City and Suburbs.

You can view the new BUAs using the Tailte Éireann website which has replaced the OSI as of March. The link to the map is here: CSO Urban Areas - National Statistical Boundaries - 2022 - Ungeneralised | CSO Urban Areas - National Statistical Boundaries - 2022 - Ungeneralised | Open Data Portal (arcgis.com).

The CSO have said that their methodology is free from bias, however Ballincollig and Glanmire are included as part of Cork even though they are distinct towns i.e. not fully connected to the rest of the urban area. Blarney somehow immediately abuts Cork even though there are plenty of green fields in between. Annacotty however has no distinction from the rest of Castletroy or Monaleen with continuous housing, schools, parks, businesses etc. I can't explain why they have counted it separately, same with Mungret tbh as the latest developments in the area e.g. Mungret Gate and Mungret Woods which are counted as Raheen rather than Mungret immediately adjoins the actual Abbey of Mungret but are separated from Mungret. Castletroy College and Castletroy Park are counted as Annacotty rather than Castletroy for some weird reason and the National Technology Park is split between them.

Parteen is in Clare 😉

It's still nice to see Limerick city now has an official population over 100,000. It moves it into a higher tier of larger cities (by Irish standards!!) and eliminates any arguments by some over the years that Galway city was somehow bigger.

I'm also confused by the exclusion of Annacotty which I assumed under the new Built Up Area (BUA) methodology would surely have been incorporated but instead is treated as a standalone village of c3800 pop.

I think the reason more outlying Ballincollig and other villages are included in Cork's urban population is because the official Cork City boundary was expanded to incorporate those areas about 10 years ago so a city population by default will include everything within that official city boundary even if it's the occupants of a farm within that boundary etc. Limerick's official city boundary is much smaller than the continuous BUA that extends into Clare etc . Why the BUA pop for Limerick includes Corbally and Castletroy but not Annacotty is confusing.....

Cork City had its boundary extension approved without a question asked. Yet after a recommended extension for Waterford City by an independent boundary commission it was refused with parish pump politics and the GAA argument being used to deny. Limerick and Waterford are at a disadvantage with their locations adjacent to different counties. Proper metropolitan boundaries need to be drawn up. But good to see Limerick & Waterford cities still growing.

I never said they were. But they are in the Eurostat definition of Cork City and Suburbs.

I’ve worked for both Local Authorities so would be fairly confident as to the boundaries.