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There should be an asterisk beside Limerick and Cork. They artificially increased their populations by extending the 'city limits' way way out into the countryside. In reality Galway city has a larger population then Limerick city.
Not really in Cork's case. The boundary extension was long overdue. Ballincollig and especially glanmire and large parts of Douglas were crazily in Cork county council area for years having expanded rapidly with lots of new housing estates where people from Cork city moved to. Furthermore, the industrial area of Little Island remained in the county area when it is clearly so connected to Cork city whereas Blarney which is rural was put into city area. politics and rates had a lot to do with the fighting between city and county councils. Carrigaline could be considered more city than Blarney and is in county. Midleton and Cobh are rapidly expanding commuter towns with rail links to the city. don't know about Limerick. All I know is that they decided to have one council for city and county. Cork luckily avoided that scenario and city was given boundary extension.
Corks makes sense. People don’t live their lives by arbitrary invisible borders, and viewing cork as a city of 120k is very unrepresentative of how it actually functions. Many of the surrounding towns function more as suburbs. There’s roughly 330k living within a 20km radius of the city centre, so the new boundaries are much more accurate
@@tiarnolaI’m actually from Glanmire and it’s really too close to call atm. But in the near enough future (10/20 years give or take) it’ll be remembered as the right call to have transferred us. There are hundreds of new houses, a new hospital, and many more developments being built in Glanmire. 10 years ago we were staunchly county but things have changed rapidly.
Good question. According to the Western Development Commission, "Part of Athlone (Monksland) is in Co. Roscommon (4,595 of 22,869 population total)" westerndevelopment.ie/policy/our-region/roscommon-county-analysis/
@@Jmurky1234 Well yeah, but it must be remembered that Belfast was one of the original great industrial cities of the world. It was like a city in the north of England, the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. There was certainly nothing like it in the rest of Ireland.
County cork has 575.000 people cork city has 400.000 living within 20 mile's of Patrick Street...i am including Middleton and carrigaline and bandon in this statistic.
