Ferbane
An Féar Bán (Irish) | |
|---|---|
Town | |
 Parochial Church of Ferbane, Boora and High Street | |
  Ferbane Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°16′14″N 7°49′42″W / 53.27065°N 7.82844°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | County Offaly |
| Elevation | 50 m (160 ft) |
| Population | 1,324 |
| Irish Grid Reference | N114246 |
Ferbane (/fɜːrˈbæn, fɛər-/; Irish: An Féar Bán)[2] is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. It is on the north bank of the River Brosna, between Birr and Athlone at the junction of the N62 and R436 roads, 20 km south of Athlone. The name of the town is said to come from the white bog cotton which grows in the surrounding Bog of Allen.[3]
Ireland's first milled-peat fired power station was commissioned by the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) at Ferbane in 1957. Since the station's closure in 2001, the Shannon Development agency and the ESB have invested €1.4 million in a new business and technology park which opened in 2005.[4]
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1821 | 594 | — |
| 1831 | 501 | −15.7% |
| 1841 | 515 | +2.8% |
| 1851 | 641 | +24.5% |
| 1861 | 445 | −30.6% |
| 1871 | 419 | −5.8% |
| 1881 | 388 | −7.4% |
| 1891 | 370 | −4.6% |
| 1901 | 320 | −13.5% |
| 1911 | 380 | +18.8% |
| 1926 | 307 | −19.2% |
| 1936 | 301 | −2.0% |
| 1946 | 312 | +3.7% |
| 1951 | 272 | −12.8% |
| 1956 | 708 | +160.3% |
| 1961 | 896 | +26.6% |
| 1966 | 1,078 | +20.3% |
| 1971 | 1,064 | −1.3% |
| 1981 | 1,402 | +31.8% |
| 1986 | 1,374 | −2.0% |
| 1991 | 1,285 | −6.5% |
| 1996 | 1,270 | −1.2% |
| 2002 | 1,198 | −5.7% |
| 2006 | 1,164 | −2.8% |
| 2011 | 1,165 | +0.1% |
| 2016 | 1,191 | +2.2% |
| 2022 | 1,324 | +11.2% |
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- ^ a b "Census 2022 - F1015 Population". Central Statistics Office Census 2022 Reports. Central Statistics Office Ireland. August 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
- ^ "Féar Bán/Ferbane". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Retrieved 17 October 2021.
- ^ A Land by the River of God - A History of Ferbane Parish , Brendan Ryan (1994)
- ^ "Business". ferbane.tv. Archived from the original on 10 October 2006.
- ^ Census for post 1821 figures.
- ^ "histpop.org". Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ "nisranew.nisra.gov.uk". Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ Lee, J. J. (1981). "On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A. (eds.). Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac (November 1984). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850". The Economic History Review. 37 (4): 473–488. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x. hdl:10197/1406. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012.
- ^ "Sapmap Area - Settlements - Ferbane". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office. April 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2020.