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Kilkenny’s population rises to over 100,000 for first time in 150 years

By Kilkenny Now 28th August 2019 2

By COLIN BARTLEY THE number of people living in Kilkenny city and county has broken the 100,000 mark for the first time in over a century and a half. Figures contained in a new report published by the Central Statistic Office, titled ‘Population and Migration Estimates’, show a population increase of 5,400 in the South […]

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Average price of house in Kilkenny soars by €30,000: CSO figures

By Kilkenny Now 14th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY HOUSE prices in Kilkenny have shot up by €30,000 in the past year, new figures reveal. The Central Statistics Office’s Residential Property Price Index for June 2019 published today reveals property prices in Kilkenny city and country are soaring as the local housing crisis deepens. The report reveals the average price of […]

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Port of Waterford sees increase in goods handled during first quarter

By Kilkenny Now 30th July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE PORT of Waterford in Belview, Co Kilkenny handled more cargo in the first three months of this year, than in each quarter of last year. This amount of goods flowing through the Kilkenny port is likely to grow with the recent announcement of a direct route to Europort Rotterdam, the busiest […]

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For richer and for poorer: Kilkenny’s highest and lowest earning neighbourhoods revealed

By Kilkenny Now 21st June 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE KILKENNY area with the highest average total household income been revealed. The Dunmore area north of the city tops the list with a household median gross income €72,076. That’s according to a new report released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO). Urlingford came bottom of the list in Kilkenny, recording an average household […]

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REVEALED: How Kilkenny households rank in Ireland’s income league table

By Kilkenny Now 20th June 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY households take home the ninth highest level of income in the country. Our county’s relatively high ranking is revealed in new figures published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) today. The CSO’s ‘Geographical Profiles on Income in Ireland 2016’ report breaks down the average total household income in each of Ireland’s […]

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REVEALED: Less than one out of every 100 new homes built in Ireland last year were in Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 7th February 2019 0

LESS than one out of 100 of the new homes completed in Ireland last year were in Kilkenny. New figures published by the Central Statistics Office today reveal a total of just 177 new homes were built in Kilkenny in 2018, despite the chronic shortage of housing in the city and much of the county. […]

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House prices in Kilkenny and South East rose by over 10% in 12 months: CSO figures

By Kilkenny Now 17th January 2019 0

HOUSE prices in Kilkenny and the South East rose by an average of just over 10% in the year to November, a new report published by the Central Statistics Office reveals. Overall, the CSO’s Residential Property Price Index for November 2018 shows there has been another slowdown in the rate of house price increases. Nationally, […]