This article is from page 1 of the 2012-04-03 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 1 JPG
MOVE over men of Clare, it’s now the time of Mná an Chláir – all because for the first time in 140 years there are officially more females than males living in the county.
That’s one of the many changes to emerge in the 2011 Census of Population for Clare, details of which were revealed last Thursday by the Central Statistics Office with the publication of the first in a series of official reports on population trends nationally.
The county’s population now stands at 117,196 – the largest it has been since 1901 – with females out numbering males for the first time since 1871, with 58,898 females to 58,298 males in Clare. The number of females in the county grew by 4,098 in the past five years, while male numbers only grew by 2,298 in the same period.