The 2016 census of Ireland was held in 2016. It was organised by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and reported a total population of 4,761,865, or a 3.8% increase since the prior 2011 census . This was the lowest recorded population growth rate since the 1991 census, with the decline in population growth rates attributed to both lower birth rates and lower net migration . The census results were released gradually between April and December 2017 in a series of reports organised either as summaries or in-depth results of specific themes, like age, ethnicity, or religion.
19-622: The Irish Parachute Club (IPC) is an air sports club, located in Clonbullogue , County Offaly , in Ireland. The club was founded in 1956 by wartime paratrooper Freddie Bond, and began operations at Weston airfield in Leixlip . In December 1959, the IPC organised emergency supply drops to the islands of Inishturk , Inishturbot and Inishark . In February 1963, the club organised emergency supply drops over
38-466: A Cessna 172 , was purchased in the same year. In 1981, the IPC moved to Esker More near Daingean and an IPC-based team Gael Force competed internationally. In 1983, a Cessna 206 was purchased and, in 1988, the club moved to its current location at Clonbullogue Airfield . Most Irish skydiving records have been set at this location, including a 51 person formation in July 2008. Later developments included
57-588: A marital status contracted with a person of the same sex . This followed a 2015 referendum to amend the Irish Constitution to permit same-sex marriages, which was passed into law by the Marriage Act 2015 . Other than marital status, the 2016 census form copied all questions verbatim from the 2011 census form . The same was not planned for the 2022 census, which underwent a public consultation process in 2017 to formulate new questions. These changes included
76-471: A "stark story" emanating from "fundamental structural problems", which he associated with the 2008 Recession and Irish housing bubble . While Ireland's population continued to grow in the 2011–2016 period, the decline in growth rates was noted by multiple outlets and the CSO's reporting. The local government area with the highest percentage growth rate was Fingal (8.1% [REDACTED] ), while Dublin city had
95-459: A revision to questions on religion, which Atheist Ireland argued skewed responses towards religiosity. The new questions were trialed in West Cork in 2018. Although most census forms in 2016 were collected in person by returning enumerators, over 15,000 forms were returned by post , with all recipients legally required to return completed forms. The census's results on declining religiosity ,
114-565: Is 770 m long and 18 m wide. This article about a sports-related organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Clonbullogue Clonbullogue or Clonbolloge ( Irish : Cluain Bolg , meaning 'bumpy meadow') is a village in County Offaly , Ireland. The village is located at the junction of the R401 and R442 regional roads . The Figile River runs through
133-603: The 1659 Census, Robert Shallcross was listed as the titled person in the area. In 1679 , Charles II granted this area to the Purefoy family and for a time the village was called Purefoy's Place. In 1798 , the village was burned—the only part of Offaly to suffer this fate during the Rebellion. Two of the Wexford leaders, Colonel Anthony Perry and Father Mogue Kearns were captured here and were later hanged at Edenderry for their part in
152-460: The 1798 Rebellion . In 1883, Father Comerford wrote: " The village of Clonbullogue which is situated on the Little Barrow presents a decayed and ruinous appearance, some of the larger houses having been burned during the rebellion of 1798 ". As of the 2016 census , the population of the village was 436. The village population expanded in the 1950s to accommodate the workers employed to develop
171-540: The COVID-19 pandemic . Although Irish law does not prescribe a regular interval for administering censuses, Census 2016 was held in accordance with Irish government tradition since 1951 to administer a census on a Sunday in April on years ending with the numbers '1' or '6'. This incidentally coincided with the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising , which began on Easter Monday , 24 April 1916. Responsibility for organising
190-539: The aging population , and rising homelessness all drew attention in Irish media. Affiliation with the largest religion in Ireland, Roman Catholicism , dropped to 78%, down from 84% in 2011. The census also reported the first ever recorded fall in the absolute number of Roman Catholics. A thematic report on housing found that home ownership rates reached their lowest since 1971, which Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government Simon Coveney described as
209-483: The Wicklow Mountains during the severe winter of that year. The IPC trained several teams that competed internationally in 1962, 1964 and 1966, and at many international events during the last 20 years. IPC-trained skydivers participated in several world records. The club later operated from a number of locations before establishing a drop zone in 1974 at Tokn Grass , west of Edenderry . The first club aircraft,
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#1732892120390228-455: The area's bogs as an energy resource under the guidance of the Irish state company Bord na Móna . The village population suffered severe declines from famine, poverty and emigration from the mid-1840s. In 1861 the population of the village was 110, and by 1871 had fallen to 79. Antiquities in the area include the Clonkeen stone. This is said to be 340 million years old and legend has it that
247-607: The census fell with the Central Statistics Office , which operates within the Department of the Taoiseach . The CSO hired 4,660 enumerators, supported by 430 field supervisors, who reported in turn to 44 regional supervisors. In delivering over two million census forms, enumerators were required to make personal contact with a resident at the property. Census 2016 was the first Irish census that allowed respondents to report
266-430: The construction of hangars and other buildings and the purchase of a PAC P-750 XSTOL turbine aircraft. Averaging over twelve thousand jumps annually, the IPC operates on weekends, bank holidays , and on some weekdays in summer; and offers tandem skydiving , Accelerated Free Fall (AFF), and static line parachuting training programmes. Clonbullogue Airfield has one grass strip runway running east-west which
285-471: The field. The airfield has one east–west grass strip runway which is 770m long and 18m wide. There are six aircraft based on the field, most of them owned by the Irish Parachute Club. The airfield is located about 2 km (1.2 mi) west of Clonbullogue village and lies under a restricted airspace designated EI-R16. On 13 May 2018 a plane from this airfield carrying 16 parachutists crashed, killing
304-526: The pilot and a seven-year-old boy. Clonbullogue soccer club known as Saint Patricks won the Division 2 league in 2004. GAA club won the junior championship in the 1980s and played intermediate until 2013 when they were relegated to junior again. They won the junior A championship again in 2015 promoting them to intermediate once again. With the conquest of Ireland from the Cromwellian wars onwards, Clonbullogue
323-465: The stone was thrown from Croghan Hill by Fionn MacCumhaill . Other sites includes the remains of a togher at Ballykilleen, the ruins of Cloncrane Church, a ring-barrow at Shean and a sheela-na-gig from Ballynowlart and Clonsast . The last was an important religious site in early monastic Ireland. Clonbullogue airfield is owned and operated by the Irish Parachute Club who are based at
342-619: The village under the R442 near its confluence with the Philipstown River . Between the village and Edenderry , 11 km to the north, lies the Bog of Allen . Clonbullogue is located near the point where three counties— Offaly , Laois and Kildare meet. The village is on an island of pasture land in the bog of Allen. The area is marked on the Cottonian map 1653 of Leix & Offaly as Clanbolg. In
361-516: Was extensively planted by colonialists. Quaker families were common under the plantations. Present day local family names can reflect these plantations. In 1731, Rev. Boyle Travers, Protestant Rector of Rathangan and Clonmore (which includes part of this area) noted, "I bless God for the comforting assurance I have that there is no reputed friary, nunnery, friars, nuns or Popish schools". 2016 census of Ireland The following census took place in April 2022, having been delayed for one year due to
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