Island off Galway coast in Ireland
Inishnee (Irish: Inis Ní) is a small island off the coast of Ireland, in Roundstone Bay near the village of Roundstone in Connemara in County Galway. It is equipped with a lighthouse. As of 2011[update], it had a population of 43.
Demographics
The table below shows data on Inishnee's population taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the Census of Ireland.
Historical population| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1841 | 455 | — |
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| 1851 | 21 | −95.4% |
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| 1861 | 300 | +1328.6% |
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| 1871 | 409 | +36.3% |
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| 1881 | 387 | −5.4% |
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| 1891 | 324 | −16.3% |
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| 1901 | 323 | −0.3% |
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| 1911 | 271 | −16.1% |
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| 1926 | 174 | −35.8% |
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| | Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1936 | 161 | −7.5% |
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| 1946 | 168 | +4.3% |
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| 1951 | 145 | −13.7% |
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| 1956 | 141 | −2.8% |
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| 1961 | 116 | −17.7% |
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| 1966 | 100 | −13.8% |
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| 1971 | 79 | −21.0% |
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| 1979 | 83 | +5.1% |
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| 1981 | 86 | +3.6% |
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| | Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1986 | 74 | −14.0% |
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| 1991 | 47 | −36.5% |
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| 1996 | 33 | −29.8% |
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| 2002 | 24 | −27.3% |
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| 2006 | 28 | +16.7% |
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| 2011 | 43 | +53.6% |
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| 2016 | 43 | +0.0% |
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| 2022 | 49 | +14.0% |
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| Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016. |
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