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Ethnic or cultural background: White Irish for every Irish local authority, ranked from highest to lowest, from official public data.

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Ethnic or cultural background: White Irish — every local authority ranked

These are raw counts, not rates -- a larger area ranks higher on this page mainly because it has more people, not necessarily a worse underlying rate.

Figures as of 2022, published by CSO Census of Population — Small Area Population Statistics (religion, ethnicity, travel to work, residence a year ago). Accessed 2026-09-21.

Usually resident population by ethnic or cultural background, from Census 2016 and 2022.

Ethnic or cultural background: White Irish, every local authority ranked
RankLocal authorityEthnic or cultural background: White Irish
1Dublin City Council372,724
2Cork County Council291,921
3Fingal County Council214,355
4South Dublin County Council212,857
5Kildare County Council192,211
6Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council175,653
7Meath County Council172,666
8Cork City Council164,631
9Limerick City And County Council160,265
10Galway County Council159,771
11Donegal County Council141,947
12Tipperary County Council138,715
13Wexford County Council134,653
14Wicklow County Council125,699
15Kerry County Council123,427
16Mayo County Council112,442
17Louth County Council106,441
18Clare County Council101,433
19Waterford City And County Council99,610
20Kilkenny County Council86,988
21Westmeath County Council73,763
22Laois County Council72,101
23Offaly County Council67,733
24Cavan County Council63,731
25Sligo County Council56,953
26Roscommon County Council55,780
27Monaghan County Council53,486
28Galway City Council52,481
29Carlow County Council48,208
30Longford County Council32,027
31Leitrim County Council28,384

Before you use these figures

  • 2016 and 2022 figures cover different areas: Cork City Council's boundary was extended in 2019, taking in a large area previously part of Cork County. This series' 2016 figure covers the smaller, pre-2019 city; its 2022 figure covers the larger, post-2019 city. The change between them reflects the boundary redraw, not a real change in the population it describes — not a trend to compare year over year.
  • Census years only, not a continuous series: This is CSO's actual Census of Population count, taken once every five years (2016, 2022 for this breakdown) — not a modelled annual estimate. No figure is published for any year in between, and this will not update again until the next census.
  • Latest figure: 2022 — 4 years old: This dataset is published annual and the publisher hasn't released anything newer. Nothing is missing from this page.

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Ethnic or cultural background: White Irish, every local authority ranked
Caveats: 2016 and 2022 figures cover different areas; Census years only, not a continuous series; Latest figure: 2022 — 4 years old
StatsMapped last confirmed these figures unchanged on 15 Sep 2026.
Source: CSO Census of Population — Small Area Population Statistics (religion, ethnicity, travel to work, residence a year ago)
https://statsmapped.com/ireland/rankings/census-ethnicity

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