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Inishnee (Irish : Inis Ní ) is a small island off the shore of Ireland , in Roundstone Bay near the village of Roundstone in Connemara in County Galway . The island is equipped with a lighthouse. As of 2011[update] , it had a population of 43.
Demographics
The table below shows data on Inishnee's population taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the Census of Ireland.
Historical population Year Pop. ±% 1841 455 — 1851 21 −95.4% 1861 300 +1328.6% 1871 409 +36.3% 1881 387 −5.4% 1891 324 −16.3% 1901 323 −0.3% 1911 271 −16.1%
Year Pop. ±% 1926 174 −35.8% 1936 161 −7.5% 1946 168 +4.3% 1951 145 −13.7% 1956 141 −2.8% 1961 116 −17.7% 1966 100 −13.8% 1971 79 −21.0%
Year Pop. ±% 1979 83 +5.1% 1981 86 +3.6% 1986 74 −14.0% 1991 47 −36.5% 1996 33 −29.8% 2002 24 −27.3% 2006 28 +16.7% 2011 43 +53.6%
Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year" . CSO.ie . Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
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