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THERE WERE 289,451 vacant dwellings around Ireland at the time of Census 2011 – 14.5 per cent of all housing stock in the state.
Of these, over 59,000 were holiday homes.
The majority of the remaining 230,056 dwellings were vacant houses (73.2 per cent), with unoccupied flats or apartments accounting for over a quarter of empty dwellings in April 2011.
Most of the vacant houses were recorded in rural areas (as shown in the map below), particularly in the west and north-west.
In Waterford city, 15 per cent of dwellings were vacant, according to Census 2011. Meanwhile in Dublin city, one in ten dwellings was vacant, the majority of which were apartments or flats.
Connacht had the highest percentage of vacant dwellings at 21.3 per cent, of which 12,232 were holiday homes and 43,005 were vacant houses, flats or apartments.
The part of Ulster covered by the census had 22,870 vacant houses, flats and apartments, while Munster had 69,078 and Leinster had 95,103.
Co Leitrim had the highest percentage of vacant dwellings, at 30.5 per cent, while Co Donegal had 28.6 per cent. The lowest percentage of vacancies was recorded in South Dublin (5.4 per cent).
Overall, the number of vacant dwellings increased, but the vacancy level fell 0.5 per cent on Census 2006.
This map shows all of the vacant properties, including holiday homes, recorded in Census 2011:
(Map: AIRO.ie/CSO)
Holiday homes
More than one in five vacant properties in Ireland in April 2011 were holiday homes, according to census data collected last year, or 3 per cent of all properties in Ireland.
These unoccupied holiday homes accounted for 59,395 dwellings (up from the 49,789 recorded in 2006), and they were mostly concentrated in counties along the southern and western coastlines such as Clare, Wexford, Kerry and Donegal.
Wexford registered the highest percentage of vacant properties that were holiday homes (48 per cent).
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Our thoughts and prayers are with Maurice in these difficult times.
The greased piglet will be rotating on a spit with an apple in his mouth soon..
@Irish Opinion: He’s never going to live that name down.
Hill—air its better than any play…brutally .humiliated conservatives…there is a god
Keep him on for a few more weeks for the craic. Then put priti in as PM
British exceptionalism is with o Leary in the grave……ha ha
I wouldn’t be a great fan of the Royal family at the best of times. But at least it seems that the Queen kept her head down and tried to discharge her duties with some measure of honour and integrity. I have to say that I kinda feel a little bit sorry for her. After 70 something years of faith service and 13 difficult prime ministers she must be appalled to find that in the twilight years of her life she gets stuck with Boris. He’s a bit like a “Floater” who keeps circling the drain but just won’t flush away.
Alexander is finished
Boris has a neck like a Jockeys Billocks
That’s too flattering to jockeys. His gonads are much tougher. He will have to be caught straying before Carrie gets the scissors to them – should not be long now.
The last time the body count went up like this was when Cromwell Street was excavated !
Jesus .. BoJo .. do us all a favour & just resign ..
@Rúraíocht: gripping stuff all the same
Boris has a neck like a Jockeys Billix
Apologies difficulties getting over the censorship
Boris has a neck like a Jockeys Gon@ds
Whoever gets the job cannot will not be of much use to the average person in the UK but will sadly not do the job like he has.
It was more like an old Ealing comedy than a government. One farce after another.
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