James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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121. To ask the Taoiseach the 35 largest towns in Ireland in order of size; and the populations of these towns. [11430/18]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The Census of Population 2016 publications include a comprehensive report titled Profile 2 – Population, Distribution and Movements which was published on the Central Statistics Office website on 11th May 2017.

For Census 2016, new boundaries for towns were created to replace the former 80 Legal towns, as these boundaries were abolished under the Local Government Reform Act, 2014. The new Census towns are defined as a cluster of at least 50 occupied homes with a maximum distance between them of no more than 100 metres and evidence of an urban centre, such as a shop or school within the cluster, as per the UN settlement criteria.

Towns by Area (sq km), population, gender and density, 2016