Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
With 234 residents, it is a town in Co. Galway.
Irish is spoken daily outside school by 39% of residents. At the 2022 census, 17% of the labour force was out of work. 38% of commuters get to work on foot, by bike or by public transport.
Cill Rónáin is too small to grade: Irish towns get subject grades from 1,000 residents.
The 3 things Cill Rónáin does most differently from other towns.
5 archaeological sites are on the record here too.
20% of its homes were built before 1919, against 3% in the median of Irish towns.
Castles, abbeys, gardens, museums and days out in and near Cill Rónáin. Best known first.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Cill Rónáin.
The nearest secondary, Coláiste Naomh Éinne, is 0.3 km away. DEIS, the support scheme, covers 50% of them, above both Co. Galway’s towns (27%) and Irish towns (35%). Families in Cill Rónáin have 2 schools within 3 km to choose from: 1 primary school and 1 secondary school.
| School | Level | Pupils | Ethos |
|---|---|---|---|
| S.N. Ronain Gaeltacht schoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 36 | Catholic |
| Coláiste Naomh Éinne Gaeltacht schoolLargest post-primary schoolPost-primary · ETB | Post-primary · ETB | 59 | Multi-denominational |
| Schools within 3 km | Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach through Irish | 100% | 15% | 8% |
| Single-sex secondaries | 0% | 31% | 39% |
| In the DEIS scheme | 50% | 27% | 35% |
Department of Education school lists, 2025/26 (preliminary) · no results are published by school · No school here carries a letter or a result: Ireland publishes neither for individual schools.
Radon above the reference level: an estimated 8.6% of homes in Cill Rónáin. For a swim, the nearest bathing water is Cill Mhuirbhigh, Inis Mór, 5.4 km from Cill Rónáin, rated excellent in 2025. Few of its homes stand low beside water.
| Share of homes | Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| On high landslide susceptibility | 6.9% | 0% | 0% |
| In high-radon areas | 0% | 100% | 0% |
EPA radon map, GSI landslide susceptibility and our low-lying homes estimate from OPW LiDAR.
The mean temperature over a year in Cill Rónáin is 10.9°C. A January night in Cill Rónáin drops to 4.8°C on average, above both Co. Galway’s towns (3.0°C) and Irish towns (2.9°C). A year brings 1,216 mm of rain to Cill Rónáin.
| Climate, 1991–2020 | Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 17.9°C | 19.3°C | 19.9°C |
| January low | 4.8°C | 3.0°C | 2.9°C |
| Average temperature over the year | 10.9°C | 10.3°C | 10.3°C |
| Rain a year | 1,216 mm | 1,261 mm | 937 mm |
Met Éireann, 1991–2020 averages.
In the HSE West and North West health region, just over a third of people hold a medical card. Allowing for its ages, Cill Rónáin has 96 residents with a disability per 100 expected, below both Co. Galway’s towns (106) and Irish towns (106). Unpaid caring falls to 9% of the town’s residents.
| Census 2022 | Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unpaid carers | 9% | 5% | 5.4% |
| Bad or very bad health | 0.4% | 1.9% | 2% |
| Good or very good health | 84% | 88% | 88% |
| With a disability | 22% | 22% | 22% |
CSO, Census 2022 general health, disability and carers · CSO life expectancy by region, 2016 · HSE medical cards, 2024 · TownRatings age-standardised ratios
Private renters make up 28% of households, lower than Co. Galway’s towns (36%) yet higher than Irish towns (22%). 1% of households rent from a council or housing body. Owners make up 63% of households.
| Housing | Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households in social housing | 1% | 10% | 13% |
| Households renting privately | 28% | 36% | 22% |
| Households owning their home | 63% | 52% | 61% |
Property Price Register · CSO residential prices by Eircode area · RTB rents · CSO, Census 2022 tenure · The price is for the postcode area H91, not the town alone: too few sales inside the town carry a full address.
Within 5 km, 79% is sea, higher than both Co. Galway’s towns (21%) and Irish towns (0%). Among the protected sites near Cill Rónáin is Inishmore Island SAC. 100% of homes are within 400 m of green space.
| Outdoors | Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protected nature within 5 km | 100% | 14% | 1.8% |
| Sea within 5 km | 79% | 21% | 0% |
| Near a park | 100% | 80% | 92% |
| Woodland within 1 km | 0.3% | 1.8% | 2.7% |
OpenStreetMap parks and paths, NPWS protected sites and the National Trails Register.
The heaviest rain of the week is due on Tuesday, around 4 mm. What counts as normal for Cill Rónáin in November: highs come to 11°C and lows to 7°C. A dry day with a stiff breeze lies ahead today: wind building to 31 km/h, then a low of 9°C.
| Season | High | Low | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | 10°C | 5°C | 357 mm |
| Spring | 13°C | 7°C | 224 mm |
| Summer | 18°C | 12°C | 273 mm |
| Autumn | 14°C | 9°C | 362 mm |
Forecast: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0) · normals: Met Éireann, 1991–2020
13% of workers worked mainly from home at the census. Short trips: 55% under 15 minutes, higher than both Co. Galway’s towns (37%) and Irish towns (31%). The commute to work averages 23.4 min.
| Census 2022 | Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unemployment rate | 17% | 9.6% | 9.2% |
| Trips under 15 minutes | 55% | 37% | 31% |
| Median household income | €38,230 | €54,305 | €57,760 |
| Average trip | 23.4 min | 23.8 min | 27.6 min |
CSO, Census 2022 travel to work, work and education · CSO Geographical Profiles of Income 2022 · Live Register · Census day was 3 April 2022, with working from home still common; shares are of those who travelled.
19% were born abroad, below both Co. Galway’s towns (26%) and Irish towns (22%). People 65 and over make up 20% of the town. Young adults of 15 to 24 are a tenth of the population.
42.7% of Cill Rónáin’s residents are women
100 women and 134 men live here; across Ireland, women are 50.6%.
| Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 7.3% | 17% | 20% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 14% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 35% | 31% | 29% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 22% | 24% |
| 65+ | 20% | 12% | 14% |
| Primary or none | 10% | 7.4% | 9.7% |
| Lower secondary | 12% | 10% | 14% |
| Leaving Cert | 35% | 29% | 35% |
| Diploma or cert | 5.7% | 5.5% | 5.8% |
| Degree or higher | 37% | 47% | 36% |
CSO, Census 2022 · Co. Galway and Ireland: the median of their towns of 2,500+
With 13 of 39 seats, Fine Gael are the largest group on Galway County Council, short of the 20 a majority needs. Cill Rónáin answers to one council, Galway County Council; Ireland has no town tier. It sits in the Conamara South local electoral area, which elects 5 councillors.
| Turnout | Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local elections, June 2024 | 68% | 45% | 46% |
| General election, November 2024 | 58% | 58% | 59% |
Department of Housing count sheets, 2024
The Sites and Monuments Record lists 5 sites here, below both Co. Galway’s towns (19) and Irish towns (11). A fifth of homes were built before 1919. Cill Rónáin’s built heritage counts 6 inventory entries, each of regional standing.
| Heritage | Cill Rónáin | Co. Galway | Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inventory buildings per 10,000 residents | 256 | 33 | 48 |
| Homes built before 1919 | 20% | 1.7% | 3.4% |
| Archaeological sites on the record | 5 | 19 | 11 |
NIAH, the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Sites and Monuments Record · CSO, Census 2022 homes by year built
Cill Rónáin’s built heritage counts 6 inventory entries, each of regional standing. 5 recorded monuments and archaeological sites lie here.
Cill Rónáin had 234 people at the 2022 census, up from 213 in 2016: 9.9% more, against 7.6% in the median of Irish towns.
The median age in Cill Rónáin is 43.3, against 37.6 in the median of Irish towns. 7% of residents are under 15 and 20% are 65 or over.
Urban area in Co. Galway
234 people live in Cill Rónáin, in the area of Galway County Council. TownRatings uses the CSO’s 2022 Urban Areas as Ireland’s towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a county or a council area, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from Tailte Éireann’s boundaries and the CSO’s Census 2022 (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: CSO, Census 2022 Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · Tailte Éireann, Urban Areas and Electoral Divisions 2022 (CC BY 4.0). 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).