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Connacht

First-level unit, Ireland: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-IRL-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO IRL / IEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
584,333
people (GHSL 2025)
18,196 km²
area
11.7%
of Ireland
26
units inside
01Map

Inside Connacht

The 26 ADM2 units of Connacht.

FIG 1 · 26 units inside Connacht
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

584,333

11.7% of Ireland.

People · WorldPop 2025

600,424

+3% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

18,196 km²

32 people per km².

Code

IE-C

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

50,062

people on land at or below 10 m, 8.6% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

26 units inside Connacht

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
ATHENRY-ORANMORE LEA-7–37,03636,622516.42726.3%7,407
ATHLONE LEA-6–25,35124,147693374.3%0
BALLINA LEA-6–25,37725,636880.25294.3%2,040
BALLINAMORE-LEA-6–11,18511,483543.66211.9%0
BALLINASLOE LEA-6–28,22327,9931,190.29244.8%0
BALLYMOTE-TOBERCURRY LEA-7–27,43626,8231,404.64204.7%727
BELMULLET-LEA-3–10,70910,2991,451.8471.8%2,205
BOYLE LEA-6–22,51224,2631,001.98223.9%0
CARRICK-ON-SHANNON LEA-6–12,06612,264284.84422.1%0
CASTLEBAR LEA-7–29,86332,479946.22325.1%173
CLAREMORRIS LEA-6–28,05530,409841.05334.8%523
CONAMARA NORTH LEA-4–18,71216,3991,516.21123.2%3,384
CONAMARA SOUTH LEA-5–13,43113,971530.29252.3%4,030
GALWAY CITY CENTRAL LEA-6–29,07833,29919.221,5135%8,895
GALWAY CITY EAST LEA-6–36,64836,15120.171,8176.3%10,536
GALWAY CITY WEST LEA-6–16,16016,16011.061,4612.8%1,901
GORT-KINVARA LEA-5–22,93025,649610.88383.9%3,231
LOUGHREA LEA-5–26,34428,167928.75284.5%0
MANORHAMILTON LEA-6–11,38011,198752.97151.9%93
NEWPORT LEA-4–16,94417,555567.55302.9%0
ROSCOMMON LEA-6–27,17727,332843.12324.7%0
SLIGO-DRUMCLIFF LEA-5–14,85615,302390.53382.5%1,372
SLIGO-STRANDHILL LEA-6–21,73023,91433.816433.7%5,807
SWINFORD LEA-4–17,10116,740660.6262.9%607
TUAM LEA-7–36,94037,184777.4486.3%1,747
WESTPORT LEA-4–17,01918,880780.16222.9%825
04Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
1 H3 cells
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
1,321 H3 cells
Railways
243.7 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
72.5 H3 cells
05Risk

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Connacht publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Ireland.
06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IRL ADM1, source: Ordce Survey Ireland, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2022
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IRL ADM2, source: Ordce Survey Ireland, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2015
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Countries
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.
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