Carrickmacross
Carraig Mhachaire Rois | |
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Town | |
 Main Street | |
  Carrickmacross Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°58′34″N 6°43′08″W / 53.976°N 6.719°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Monaghan |
| Elevation | 44 m (144 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 5,032 |
| Eircode routing key | A81 |
| Telephone area code | +353(0)42 |
| Irish Grid Reference | H837039 |
| Website | www |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1821 | 1,641 | — |
| 1831 | 2,979 | +81.5% |
| 1841 | 1,997 | −33.0% |
| 1851 | 2,529 | +26.6% |
| 1861 | 2,063 | −18.4% |
| 1871 | 2,017 | −2.2% |
| 1881 | 2,002 | −0.7% |
| 1891 | 1,779 | −11.1% |
| 1901 | 1,874 | +5.3% |
| 1911 | 2,064 | +10.1% |
| 1926 | 1,995 | −3.3% |
| 1936 | 2,095 | +5.0% |
| 1946 | 2,116 | +1.0% |
| 1951 | 2,045 | −3.4% |
| 1956 | 2,155 | +5.4% |
| 1961 | 2,108 | −2.2% |
| 1966 | 2,094 | −0.7% |
| 1971 | 2,475 | +18.2% |
| 1981 | 3,292 | +33.0% |
| 1986 | 3,465 | +5.3% |
| 1991 | 3,341 | −3.6% |
| 1996 | 3,617 | +8.3% |
| 2002 | 3,832 | +5.9% |
| 2006 | 4,387 | +14.5% |
| 2011 | 4,925 | +12.3% |
| 2016 | 5,032 | +2.2% |
| 2022 | 5,745 | +14.2% |
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Carrickmacross (Irish: Carraig Mhachaire Rois, meaning 'rock of the wooded plain')[4] is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. The town and environs had a population of 5,032 according to the 2016 census,[1] making it the second-largest town in the county. Carrickmacross is a market town which developed around a castle built by the Earl of Essex in 1630. The town is 20 km west of Dundalk and 75 km north-north-west of Dublin city centre and 106 km south west of Belfast. Carrickmacross won the European Entente Florale Silver Medal Award in 1998.[5] The local Gaelic football and hurling club is Carrickmacross Emmets. The local soccer team is Carrick Rovers.
- ^ a b c "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Carrickmacross". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. 2016. Archived from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "CSO: Census: Census Home Page". Archived from the original on 20 September 2010. Retrieved 6 July 2012. and www.histpop.org. Post-1991 figures include environs of Carrickmacross. For a discussion on the accuracy of pre-famine census returns see J. J. Lee "On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses" in Irish Population, Economy and Society edited by JM Goldstrom and LA Clarkson (1982) p54, and also "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850" by Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda in The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Nov. 1984), pp. 473–488.
- ^ "F1015: Population and Average Age by Sex and List of Towns (number and percentages), 2022". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. April 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
- ^ "Carraig Mhachaire Rois / Carrickmacross". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ "Carrickmacross - 30 years as a tidy town". carrickmacross.ie. Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District. Retrieved 18 February 2020.