Photo: IrishFireside · CC BY 2.0Myshall ranks below 98% of Irish towns on households in flats: 1.7%
83% of residents said they are Catholic (Ireland’s towns: 71%). The 2022 Census counted 292 residents in 115 households. Households of parents with children account for 50%. Shared households of unrelated adults are rarer here than in 99% of Irish towns.
Myshall changed by +2% from 2016 to 2022, behind 84% of Irish towns
Residents at the 2016 and 2022 censuses, on 2022 boundaries, and the change beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Change, 2016 to 2022
CSO publishes yearly population estimates for counties and regions, not towns, so the trend is two censuses rather than a line; 2016 ages aren’t on 2022 boundaries, so there is no change by age.
Across Co. Carlow’s towns the median is +9%, and across Ireland’s towns +8%.
A median age of 40.7: Myshall is older than 83% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
The largest age band is 10–14: just over one in ten residents, 1.5 times the share across Ireland’s towns. One in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. Residents aged 65 and over are more common here than in 62% of Irish towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
54% women, 46% men
About 85 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Carlow 51.4%, Ireland 51.2%.
In Myshall, 3.8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier, fewer than in 96% of Irish towns
CSO’s social classes (everyone, by their own or their family’s occupation), the occupations of those at work, and where residents lived a year before the Census.
Residents by social class · all residents
Where residents lived a year earlier
Residents who lived somewhere else a year earlier. The bar runs to 25%.
Workers by occupation · residents at work
Nothing unusual on students among residents 15 and over: 9.2%, close to the figure across Ireland’s towns. For residents who moved in within the year, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 7.5%.
Myshall sits above 66% of Irish towns for one-person households (27%)
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Carlow’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
In Myshall the average household is 2.6 people, beside 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Against that, 24% of households are one person living alone across Ireland’s towns.
Below 75% of Irish towns: 10% of households have no car or van
Home types, cars and the internet, by household. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Cars or vans · share of households
Internet at home · share of households
No internet at all: 14% (typical: 7.6%). Households without a car or van make up 17% across Ireland’s towns. On the census count, 1.6% of homes are holiday homes.
Household income at the median: €49,930 a year
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
€49,930 a year before tax puts the median household 17% below Ireland (€60,120). Co. Carlow’s median household income is €53,120.
15% born outside Ireland, fewer than in 85% of Irish towns
Place of birth and citizenship as CSO asks them: born abroad includes Irish citizens born abroad.
Born abroad, by birthplace · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 30%
Citizens of another country, by citizenship; CSO counts dual Irish citizens as Irish.
Other languages · share of all residents
CSO’s small-area tables don’t give the year people arrived.
Polish leads the languages spoken at home (4.5%), among the 14% who speak another language there; 1.7% speak English not well or not at all. Myshall has fewer residents with another country’s citizenship than 73% of Irish towns, at 11%. Residents born outside Ireland make up 22% across Ireland’s towns.
Fewer daily speakers of Irish outside education than 99% of Irish towns: 0.4%
Residents aged 3 and over who can speak Irish, and how often they speak it outside education (CSO).
Irish speakers · residents aged 3 and over
Within Co. Carlow, Carlow has the largest share, 1.2%. The usual figure: 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
Residents with no religion: 12%, a lower share than 86% of Irish towns
Ethnic or cultural background and religion, in CSO’s categories, as people described themselves.
Ethnic groups other than White Irish · all residents
White Irish, not charted: 87% of Myshall · Co. Carlow’s towns 79% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
87% of residents describe themselves as White Irish, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. By way of comparison, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Next after White Irish come Other White (11%), Other, including mixed (1.8%) and Irish Traveller (0.7%).
In Myshall, 30% of residents 15 and over are married, fewer than in 82% of Irish towns
Marital status of residents 15 and over, and unpaid carers.
Partnership status · residents 15 and over
The small-area tables count carers, not their hours of care.
There is little gap on unpaid carers: 5.1%, about the same as across Ireland’s towns. Typically, 34% of residents 15 and over are married across Ireland’s towns.
In Myshall, 21% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher, fewer than in 87% of Irish towns
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Of Myshall’s adults, 4.5% went on to postgraduate study and 18% left at primary level or earlier (9.7% across Ireland’s towns). On average, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns.
Every neighbour of Myshall has a younger population
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myshall | 292 | — | 40.7 | 15% | 50% |
| Bunclody | 2,053 | 9.3 km | 37.9 | 17% | 38% |
| Muinebeag (Bagenalstown) | 2,945 | 12.5 km | 39.8 | 18% | 43% |
| Tullow | 5,138 | 13.1 km | 36.2 | 12% | 46% |
| Carlow | 27,351 | 18.8 km | 36.3 | 12% | 43% |
| Carnew | 1,233 | 19.0 km | 39.6 | 15% | 44% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Carlow’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Carlow has fewer than five towns of 2,500 or more, so its figure is the median of its towns of 1,000 or more; the national figure is the median of the Irish towns of 2,500 or more (city totals left out). Percentiles are within Ireland only.
- The earlier population is an estimate. Towns had no official 2016 count on today’s boundaries, so the 2016 figure is CSO’s electoral-division count shared out by where people lived in 2022: read a small town in a large rural division loosely.
- What these tables don’t give. The small-area tables give no year of arrival and no hours of care, and a town’s electoral divisions run past its edge, so the page doesn’t split a town into named areas (a city lists its neighbourhoods).
- The census’s own words. Born abroad, citizenship, ethnic or cultural background and religion are CSO’s questions and categories; the page compares them with other towns and never labels a town by them.
Questions about Myshall’s residents
What is the population of Myshall?
Myshall had 292 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 2% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Myshall?
The median age is 40.7. 30% are under 18 and 15% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Myshall?
36% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (97 people), and 0.4% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Myshall?
87% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 15% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Myshall?
83% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 5.3% another religion; 2.7% didn’t say.
Is Myshall good for families?
50% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 30% of residents are under 18. Schools near Myshall are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Myshall?
Median gross household income in Myshall was €49,930 in 2022, against €53,120 across Co. Carlow and €60,120 for Ireland.
Sources: CSO, Census of Population 2022, Small Area Population Statistics · CSO PxStat FP009 (2016 by electoral division) · CSO GPIIA, household income 2022. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).