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86.7% OF CO MONAGHAN POPULATION IS CATHOLIC, CENSUS SHOWS
26 Oct 2012 Comments Off on 86.7% OF CO MONAGHAN POPULATION IS CATHOLIC, CENSUS SHOWS
The number of people living in Co Monaghan who profess Catholicism as their religious faith is at its highest in a century, according to census statistics published this week. The latest release of Census 2011 results shows that 52,440 people, representing 86.7% of the county’s population, are Catholic. At a time when religious observance, particularly in the Catholic faith, carries the popular perception of being on the wane, the statistic is a striking one. It may be influenced by the influx in recent years of economic migrants ...
