Talk:List of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland

message: With the new census figures released, I think this page could do with an update. I would also suggest that this time around, to avoid any ambiguity, that only the population of the towns are included, rather than an arbitrarily adding 'environs'.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.216.27 (talk) 13:34, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Im not sure of this but I think in the 2011 Census, Rathkeales population dropped to below 2,000. ShaneMc2010 12:14, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 2011 census

message: Where does Tallaght fit into all this? It's surprising that the Central Statistics Office includes it with Dublin and environs, considering its size, when  Swords, on the other hand, is considered seperately.  Ga2re2t (talk) 15:59, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that is simply because Tallaght has been part of the contiguous built-up area of Dublin since the 1970s; Swords arguably still isn't due to the airport "exclusion zone" that maintained a tract of agricultural land between it and the city. The old Dun Laoghaire Borough was larger than modern Tallaght and had its own local Authority but the area was always included as part of the city environs because it was "joined-up" 100 years ago. Looking ahead, I'd say the way the whole area east of the airport; Clongriffin/"Northern fringe", Baldoyle, Portmarnock and Malahide are rapidly expanding and joining to each other and to Swords that in a 10 years Swords might find itself like Tallaght!(Sarah777 (talk) 00:48, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't see why this will make those cities a part of Dublin. Take a look at the San Francisco bay area. Allmost all the cities in that region actually make up one large megapole city but still keep their separate identities as cities, such as (anti-clockwise direction) San Francisco, San Mateo, Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Jose, Fremont, Hayward, Oakland and Berkeley. Ga2re2t (talk) 15:42, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Normally if the are contiguous they are regarded as a single city. Makes more geographical sense. Tallaght grew from 500 to 100,000 purely because it was a suburb of Dublin; ditto Swords. If Tallaght was in Mayo it would not be much bigger than it was in 1960. That's why Navan and Naas and Wicklow and Newbridge etc are regarded as part of the Greater Dublin Area. Sarah777 (talk) 19:02, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Because it has no legal boundaries.  The Banner talk 22:53, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tallaght 

message: I think towns in Fingal should be listed as being in County Dublin for the following reasons.
Arguments for the change:-
*"Traditionally", there are 26 counties in the Rep. of Ireland, and these counties are what most people would recognise.
*County Tipperary is listed as one county, even though it was split into North and South under the Local Government Act, 2001. In my opinion, towns in Fingal should follow the same format and be listed as County Dublin.
*According to Counties of Ireland, Ireland was subdivided into 29 counties for "administrative purposes". The majority of the population of Ireland would still consider there to be 26 counties in the Republic.
FreeT (talk) 03:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree totally. Sarah777 (talk) 19:10, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  County Fingal? 

message: I think that the 2002 figures are now — 8 years later — irrelevant.  I therefore suggest two things:
# Removing the 2002 rankings and figures columns; and
# Inserting a new column in their stead: a percentage increase from 2002 to 2006.
This would achieve both removing irrelevant information, and allowing one to rank towns according to population increases, which is now currently impossible.  
ConorBrady.ie (caint) 19:05, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have effected this change, and have also included a column showing the ranking change from 2002 to 2006.  (cf Urban areas in Denmark.)  ConorBrady.ie (caint) 08:53, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obsolete info re: 2002 

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message: When a town is givin two (or 3) figures for population, namely rural, urban and environs, do you add them up or do you just take the Town figure? Some of the towns on this list contain both figures, and some just the town figure, so essentially the town will cause confusion until one is deceided. ShaneMc2010 12:31, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urban or Rural?  

message: This edit seems to have added Castlebar at the expense of Tralee, with several digits of the population number being identical. That doesn't seem right, or is it? 31.18.249.107 (talk) 22:45, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right, correction done. — M-le-mot-dit (T) 10:42, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: At least one guy is busy with a campaign to make Castlebar more important and bigger than it really is. Quite annoying, but reverting can fix that, here and everywhere. The Banner talk 21:07, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: Why is balbriggan even here!? All suburbs of the cities should be excluded from the list to give a more clear and accurate representation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brancott (talk • contribs) 00:34, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balbriggan  

message: A very similar issue to the above seems to arise with regard to County Tipperary, Nenagh, and Clonmel.  The article on each of these towns claims it to be the "county town".  Other articles list both, or just Nenagh.  None give sources.  The merged council, much as with Waterford, lists administrative offices in both locations, and appears to be holding council meetings in both, too.  This is an almighty mess.  79.97.71.180 (talk) 17:33, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Tipperary is divided into north and south for administrative purposes.  It's even on car registration numbers, TN and TS.  Nenagh is in Tipperary North and Clonmel in Tipperary South.  ~ R.T.G 15:41, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Tipperary North and Tipperary South were both abolished and merged on 3rd June 2014. ManfromDelmonte (talk) 11:46, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tipperary county town 

message: I see that Ballincollig Co. Cork has been excluded from the list.  The urban area is not included in Cork City's population and has itself a population of 17,368 bringing it within the remit of this list.  Surely Ballincollig therefore should be included in this list ?  ManfromDelmonte (talk) 11:43, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No need to do that, The list is complied based on this census-related source. Ballincollig is not mentioned in that list. Secondly, with this table you can see that the Cork numbers are those of city and suburbs. The Banner talk 15:31, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ballincollig 

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message: This list can be updated now with today's release of the 2022 census results regarding City and Town population figures, available at https://data.cso.ie/ on table F1015 23stat23stat (talk) 14:37, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  2022 Census