Farthest from a GAA Pitch – Ireland
Ryan McGuinness has created a great website called GAA Pitch Finder with an accompanying dataset. His blog is fantastic and goes through geographic facts such as the highest elevation of pitches and each county’s GAA pitch with the largest nearest neighbour distance. The one fact I wanted to know was, what’s the farthest you can […]
Median Distance Between Built Up Areas – Ireland
I was rereading this article (warning: paywall) in The Economist from 2023 that states: In 1960 the median distance between African cities was 84.3km; in 1990 it was 55.7km. By 2015 this had fallen to 27.3km. This got me ruminating on what it is for Ireland? I haven’t done it historically, just for the latest […]
Most Remote Building in Ireland
Introduction I read a few excellent blog posts over the last number of years regarding how to calculate remoteness of buildings from each other. The two that stand out for me are Topi Tjukanov’s Searching for Isolation with GIS and Simon Wrigley’s Finding the most remote buildings in Britain which offer excellent methodologies on how to find […]
Driving from Perth to Sydney
I’ve driven from Perth to Sydney and back so I was curious as to what the route would look like overlaid on Europe so here it is. If you went the same distance west from Dublin you’d get to a small town in Labrador and Newfoundland called North River (population 579 in 2021).
Megacities of the World
I was recently reading the wiki page for megacities and I decided to try out the new curved callouts in QGIS by creating the below map.
Ireland’s Population by Altitude
I read Alasdair Rae’s very interesting post where he created a graph of Great Britain’s population by altitude. Using WorldPop data and the EU DEM I used QGIS, Seaborn and Inkscape to create the following graph for Ireland. I must do a bit of digging to see whether the 400 – 500 metre slight bump […]
SA2 Area with the Highest Median Age
I’m hopefully going to get a chance to get some decent maps out from the latest census so I’ve started with an easy win.
Knockanore Hill
I was home recently and drove up to the top of Knockanore, a hill just outside Ballybunion, Co. Kerry. Its elevation is 267m and is by far the highest hill in this part of North- Kerry. This got me curious — how much of Kerry is greater or less than this elevation? Below is a […]
Birthplaces of Irish Taoisigh
I made a quick map during the week of the birthplaces of Irish Taoisigh. The below gives a quick overview however I thought putting a cartogram together also might below. No surprise to see Dublin has the most. I know we’re a young country but I found it interesting the number of counties that haven’t […]
Do Not Repost – Castles of Europe
27/03/25 – Postscript: This maps gets cropped a lot and reposted online (to widespread disdain). I am trying to right a wrong here; I should never have published the map. I filtered the data by historic=castle. This tag is far too broad and includes historic houses, I have updated the image to reflect the issue. […]