Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0A larger share of holiday homes than 94% of Irish towns: 4.2%
2.1% of households are unrelated adults living together, against 4.7% across Ireland’s towns. The 2022 Census counted 481 residents in 187 households. Locally, a third of households are one person living alone. On residents who said they are Catholic, Carrigallen sits higher than 83% of Irish towns: 77%.
A growing town: +8% since 2016, faster than 54% 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.
A smaller share of residents aged 15 to 24 than 89% of Irish towns: 10%
Share of residents in each five-year band; the tick is the typical town.
With a median age of 38.8, Carrigallen is older than 64% of Irish towns. The share of residents aged 65 and over stands at 14%. Typically, 12% of residents are aged 15 to 24 across Ireland’s towns. In Mohill, the oldest of Co. Leitrim’s towns by this measure, it is 26%.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
47% women, 53% men
About 111 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Co. Leitrim 51.6%, Ireland 51.2%.
Students among residents 15 and over: 8.4%, a lower share than 89% 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
9.5% of residents lived at another address a year earlier; across Ireland’s towns the figure is 7.5%. Set beside that, 10% of residents 15 and over are students across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of households of parents with children than 71% of Irish towns: 39%
Private households by CSO’s family types, beside the county’s towns and Ireland’s.
Against Co. Leitrim’s towns and Ireland’s towns
People per household
Ireland’s towns.
In Carrigallen the average household is 2.5 people, beside 2.7 across Ireland’s towns. Measured more widely, 43% of households are parents with children across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of households in flats than 86% of Irish towns: 5.3%
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
Across Ireland’s towns, the share of households without a car or van is 17%; Carrigallen has 14%. Against that, just over one in ten households live in a flat or apartment across Ireland’s towns.
€40,670 a year: the median household income
Household income in 2022 from CSO’s linked administrative data (GPIIA): the middle household’s income before and after tax.
Before tax, the middle household here has €40,670 a year, 32% less than the Ireland median (€60,120). Co. Leitrim comes in at €45,270 at the median.
Carrigallen: 29% of residents were born outside Ireland, above 77% 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 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.
Residents born abroad were most often born elsewhere in the EU (9.9%), then in Poland (7.8%). Few places have as many residents with another country’s citizenship: 21% here, more than in 78% of Irish towns. The share of residents born outside Ireland across Ireland’s towns is 22%.
Carrigallen ranks below 82% of Irish towns on daily speakers of Irish outside education: 0.7%
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
Top of Co. Leitrim: Ballinamore, at 1.8%. Set beside that, 1.1% of residents speak Irish daily outside education across Ireland’s towns.
A lower share of residents with no religion than 86% of Irish towns, at 12%
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: 72% of Carrigallen · Co. Leitrim’s towns 80% · Ireland’s towns 78%.
Religion · all residents
The share of residents who describe themselves as White Irish is 72%, against 78% across Ireland’s towns. Elsewhere, 17% of residents said they have no religion across Ireland’s towns. Next after White Irish come Other White (25%), Other, including mixed (1.7%) and Asian or Asian Irish (1.1%).
Carrigallen: 35% of residents 15 and over are married, above 53% 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.
In Carrigallen, 5.6% of residents give unpaid care. 55% of the town’s residents 15 and over are single and 35% married, against 56% and 34% across Ireland’s towns.
A smaller share of adults with a degree or higher than 88% of Irish towns: 21%
Highest level of education completed, residents 15 and over whose education has ended.
Highest qualification · residents 15+ whose education has ended
Postgraduate: 6.2% of adults. Measured more widely, 36% of adults whose education has ended hold a degree or higher across Ireland’s towns. Primary level or earlier: 12%, against 9.7% across Ireland’s towns.
Carrigallen sits below 3 of its 6 closest neighbours on median age
The nearest places, coloured by median age; each is a census urban area.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Parents with children |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carrigallen | 481 | — | 38.8 | 14% | 39% |
| Ballinamore | 1,112 | 12.8 km | 39.3 | 20% | 36% |
| Mohill | 1,027 | 15.6 km | 44.3 | 26% | 38% |
| Ballyconnell | 1,422 | 15.7 km | 36.4 | 13% | 43% |
| Ballinagh | 1,012 | 16.4 km | 34.2 | 9.7% | 50% |
| Cavan | 11,741 | 19.0 km | 36.1 | 12% | 44% |
| Belturbet | 1,610 | 19.0 km | 39.4 | 18% | 34% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Against Co. Leitrim’s towns and Ireland’s towns. Co. Leitrim 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 Carrigallen’s residents
What is the population of Carrigallen?
Carrigallen had 481 residents at the 2022 Census, counted within its urban area, 8% more than 2016.
What is the average age in Carrigallen?
The median age is 38.8. 26% are under 18 and 14% 65 or older.
How many people speak Irish in Carrigallen?
33% of residents aged 3 and over can speak Irish (148 people), and 0.7% speak it every day outside education, against a typical 1.1% across Ireland’s towns.
How diverse is Carrigallen?
72% describe themselves as White Irish (Ireland’s towns: 78%); 29% were born abroad and 21% are citizens of another country.
What religion are people in Carrigallen?
77% are Catholic, 12% have no religion and 11% another religion; 3.3% didn’t say.
Is Carrigallen good for families?
39% of households are parents with children (Ireland’s towns 43%), and 26% of residents are under 18. Schools near Carrigallen are on its Schools page.
What is the median income in Carrigallen?
Median gross household income in Carrigallen was €40,670 in 2022, against €45,270 across Co. Leitrim 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).