Roscommon in Census 2011 - Roscommon County Council

Irish speakers
The total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who could speak Irish in April 2011 was
1,774,437. This was an increase of 7.1 per cent on the 1,656,790 persons who could speak Irish
in April 2006. There were more females (973,587) able to speak Irish than males (800,850).
Between the ages of 5 and 18 inclusive just under 450,000 children spoke Irish on a daily basis
in school representing 87 per cent of all persons who spoke Irish within education in 2011.
There were 77,185 persons speaking Irish on a daily basis outside of the education system in
April 2011. Twenty three per cent of these were aged 5 to 18 (17,457 persons), a further
23,359 (30%) were in the age group 25-44. There were more women (42,157) than men
(35,028).
There were 110,642 persons who said that they spoke Irish on a weekly basis outside of
education. Again, there were more females (61,176) than males (49,466) speaking Irish on a
weekly basis and relatively larger numbers of females spoke Irish weekly in the 35-44 age
group than in the other non-school going ages.
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