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18-531: Toomes is closely located to Louth which is home to the St Mochtas House, circa 500AD, and to St Mary's Abbey, Louth. Toomes is also at the heart of the so-called Patrick Kavanagh Country which covers the area around Inniskeen where Patrick Kavanagh was born. Many of his poems are set there. As a townland Toomes is hardly remarkable would it not be for the fact that the Quinn Group applied in 2007 to build

36-452: A Natural Gas fired combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power station with an electrical output capacity of 450 megawatts, which would be one of the biggest power plants ever built in Ireland . There is controversy with regards to permitting such a plant in a cultural important area that is zoned for farming and residential purposes and also with regard to the lack of public information given in

54-588: 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

72-415: A shrine dedicated to the god. Historically, the place-name was spelt in variously different ways such as; " Lughmhagh" , " Lughmhadh" and " Lughbhadh" . The first is thought to mean "Lugh's plain" or "Lugh's field", but the meaning of the other two is unclear. Lú is the modern simplified spelling . According to tradition, Mochta —a Christian missionary from Britain —founded a monastery at Louth in

90-471: 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

108-459: 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 ,

126-637: Is believed that Edward Bruce of Scotland stayed at the priory in 1315, leading to the estate being fined by the English crown. The remnants of a motte-and-bailey castle stand in a private field overlooking much of the village, on the edge of the Artoney townland. The eight meter tall motte - known locally as the Fairy Mound - is the highest point in the village and in Norman times had a wooden structure atop. Until early in

144-462: Is roughly 11 km south-west of the town of Dundalk , 10.9 km to neighbouring town Ardee. The village is approximately 15 km south-east of Carrickmacross town in County Monaghan . The village gave its name to the county. The village is in a barony and civil parish of the same name. The village is named after Lugh , a god of the ancient Irish, and may once have been the site of

162-540: 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

180-589: 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

198-489: The 21st century, the village was also home to the last remnants of St John's Abbey. The last standing portion of the walls of the monastery, a 12-foot-high (3.7 m), 4-foot-wide (1.2 m) piece known locally as The Pinnacle, suddenly collapsed overnight. The Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, which was built in 1892, sits atop a hill overlooking the village and surrounding area. Its interior

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216-403: The 6th century, known today as St. Mochta's House . In the 1920s the structure was completely dismantled and rebuilt in an attempt to save it from damage caused by ivy. In the 12th century, Saint Mary's Monastery was built approximately 50m east, but today lies in ruins after the dissolution of the monasteries under the English king Henry VIII . The current structure dates mainly from the 1300s it

234-607: 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

252-552: The context of the Strategic Infrastructure Act 2006 (Fast Track) under which the application was filed. In June 2008 the Quinn Group received permission for their development. This article related to the geography of County Louth , Ireland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Louth, County Louth Louth ( Irish : Lú ) is a village at the heart of County Louth , Ireland . It

270-507: 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. The following census took place in April 2022, having been delayed for one year due to

288-502: The site of his childhood home on the outskirts of the village, in the Priorstate townland. Denis Faul (1932–2006), Roman Catholic priest and civil rights campaigner, was born in Louth. 2016 census of Ireland 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

306-428: Was destroyed in 2003 by an accidental fire, started during renovation work, leaving only the exterior walls and spire standing. In early 2006, it reopened with a renovated modern-style interior. The local GAA team took the name St. Mochtas and play at the nearby Pairc Mochta founded in 1949, in honour of the saint who founded the small church in the village in the 6th century. The local primary school, St. Mochta's NS,

324-449: Was established in 1973. The population of the village doubled from 373 inhabitants as of the 1991 census to 735 people as of the 2016 census . The village was home to former Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) Eddie Filgate . Filgate was first elected to the 21st Dáil at the 1977 general election in the Louth constituency . He died in 2017, aged 101, at which time he was living next to

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