Camino de Santiago
I was talking to someone recently about the Camino de Santiago and whether it plays a role in sustaining the population of the provinces it traverses. It’s a rainy Sunday here so I sat down with a cup of coffee and decided to create a population density map using data from: OSM, WorldPop, Natural Earth […]
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 […]
Over the Horizon
I recently moved to the south-west of Western Australia, close to a town called Busselton. The town is famous for, among other things, the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere (at 1,841m). The first time I walked the jetty I stood at the end and gazed out wondering if I could follow my gaze […]
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. […]
Australia – Place Names Ending in ‘UP’
I was having a chat at work recently about the place names in Australia that end in ‘up’. It comes from a dialect of the Noongar Aboriginal language of Australia and means ‘place of’. Below are two quick maps I put together. You can clearly see the concentration in the Noongar region of South-West Western […]
Ireland – Densest 1km² per County
I’ve been writing a lot about population density at the moment and it got me thinking about density in Ireland. We all know we’re pitiful in terms of other European countries and we know from census 2016 that we’re sitting at 70 persons per km². What I’m curious about is what’s the densest square kilometre […]
Census 2016-Percentage UK Born Living in Ireland
I was looking at this web-map this morning that shows the number of Irish living in the UK. I quickly put together an equivalent for the number of UK born individuals resident in Ireland as reported in the 2016 census.
Irish Census 2016 – Unpopulated Townlands
At some stage in the second half of 2020 the Central Statistics Office released the population for each townland in Ireland for both the 2011 and 2016 censuses. They had a category for both data that has been suppressed ‘-1′ and the townlands that were unpopulated ‘0′. I think it’s a safe assumption that if […]