Photo: Herbert Ortner · CC BY 3.0A larger share of holiday homes than 99% of Irish towns: 13%
Here 45% of households are one person living alone, where the figure across Ireland’s towns is 24%. 234 residents in 78 households: that is Cill Rónáin at the 2022 Census. The census found that a fifth of residents are 65 or over here. At 27%, the share of residents with no religion is higher than in 87% of Irish towns.
What stands out about the people of Cill Rónáin
Irish spoken every day, in the Gaeltacht
39% of residents speak Irish every day outside education, more than in 99% of Irish towns; 67% can speak it. Cill Rónáin is in the Gaeltacht. Irish speakers ↓
Written from the data on this page: CSO Census 2022.
A larger share of daily speakers of Irish outside education than 99% of Irish towns: 39%
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
Cill Rónáin is in the Gaeltacht, the districts where Irish is the community language. In all, 149 residents aged 3 and over (67%) can speak Irish.
Growth of +10% since 2016 puts Cill Rónáin ahead of 63% 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.
Medians for comparison: +8% across Ireland’s towns; +7% across Co. Galway’s towns.
A median age of 43.3: Cill Rónáin is older than 94% of Irish towns
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
Residents aged 15 to 24 make up 10%, against 12% across Ireland’s towns. The largest age band is 35–39: just over one in ten residents, 1.4 times the share across Ireland’s towns.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
43% women, 57% men
About 75 women for every 100 men. Median share of women: Co. Galway 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
Students among residents 15 and over: 6.5%, a lower share than 99% 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
Workers here lean to skilled trades: 19%, against a typical 11%. As a yardstick, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns. The census found that 8% of residents lived at another address a year earlier in Cill Rónáin.
2.1 people per household, fewer than in 98% of Irish towns
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Galway’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
By its share of shared households of unrelated adults (7.7%), Cill Rónáin is above 74% of Irish towns. Across Cill Rónáin, 31% of households are parents with children.
38% of households have no car or van, a share 89% of Irish towns don’t reach
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
Internet at home: broadband for 64%, nothing for 28% (typical: 7.6%). Households without a car or van: 17% across Ireland’s towns, for comparison. Locally, 13% of households live in a flat or apartment.
Half above, half below €38,230 a year in household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Half of Cill Rónáin’s households have a gross income below €38,230 a year, 36% under the median for Ireland (€60,120). For Co. Galway, the figure is €59,640.
Below 70% of Irish towns: 11% of residents are citizens of another country
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 35%
Citizenship · share of all residents; the bar runs to 35%
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.
The two biggest birthplaces abroad are elsewhere in the EU (8.8%) and outside the EU and UK (5.3%). Residents with another country’s citizenship make up 15% across Ireland’s towns. 19% of residents were born outside Ireland, fewer than in 66% of Irish towns.
A larger share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish than 82% of Irish towns: 86%
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: 86% of Cill Rónáin · Co. Galway’s towns 72% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
Next after White Irish come Other White (8.5%), Asian or Asian Irish (2.3%) and Other, including mixed (2.3%). For residents who describe themselves as White Irish, the comparison across Ireland’s towns is 78%. On residents who said they are Catholic, Cill Rónáin sits lower than 69% of Irish towns: 66%.
Above 99% of Irish towns: 9% of residents give unpaid care
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.
For Cill Rónáin, the census puts married residents 15 and over at 34%. About 20 residents (9%) give regular unpaid care (Ireland’s towns 5.4%).
Cill Rónáin ranks above 52% of Irish towns on adults with a degree or higher: 37%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
17% of Cill Rónáin’s adults hold a postgraduate qualification, and 10% finished their education at primary level or earlier (Ireland’s towns: 9.7%). Across Ireland’s towns, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Galway’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Each comparison is its own median: over Co. Galway’s towns of 2,500 or more and over 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).
- Speaking Irish. CSO asks everyone aged 3 and over whether they can speak Irish and how often; “daily outside education” leaves out speaking it only at school.
- 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 Cill Rónáin’s residents
What is the population of Cill Rónáin?
Cill Rónáin had 234 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 10% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Cill Rónáin?
The median age is 43.3. 9% are under 18 and 20% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Cill Rónáin?
67% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (149 people), and 39% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Cill Rónáin?
86% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 19% were born abroad and 11% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Cill Rónáin?
66% are Catholic, 27% have no religion and 7.2% another religion; 4.7% didn’t say.
Is Cill Rónáin good for families?
31% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 9% of residents are under 18. Schools near Cill Rónáin are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Cill Rónáin?
Median gross household income in Cill Rónáin was €38,230 in 2022, against €59,640 across Co. Galway 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).