People
See also category: People from Castlebar| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1821 | 5,404 | — |
| 1831 | 6,373 | +17.9% |
| 1841 | 5,137 | −19.4% |
| 1851 | 4,016 | −21.8% |
| 1861 | 3,022 | −24.8% |
| 1871 | 3,571 | +18.2% |
| 1881 | 3,855 | +8.0% |
| 1891 | 3,558 | −7.7% |
| 1901 | 3,585 | +0.8% |
| 1911 | 3,698 | +3.2% |
| 1926 | 4,266 | +15.4% |
| 1936 | 4,826 | +13.1% |
| 1946 | 4,951 | +2.6% |
| 1951 | 5,288 | +6.8% |
| 1956 | 5,321 | +0.6% |
| 1961 | 5,852 | +10.0% |
| 1966 | 6,292 | +7.5% |
| 1971 | 6,476 | +2.9% |
| 1981 | 7,423 | +14.6% |
| 1986 | 7,645 | +3.0% |
| 1991 | 7,648 | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 8,532 | +11.6% |
| 2002 | 11,371 | +33.3% |
| 2006 | 11,891 | +4.6% |
- Ulick Bourke, scholar, founder of the Gaelic Union
- Louis Brennan, inventor
- Ryan Connolly, footballer
- Michael Murphy, broadcaster, journalist, pscychoanalyst
- Michael Feeney, Chairman and Founder Mayo Peace Park
- Margaret Burke-Sheridan, opera singer
- Enda Kenny, Taoiseach
- Pádraig Flynn, former Government Minister and European Commissioner
- Charles Haughey, former Taoiseach
- Archbishop John McHale, Archbishop of Tuam, Irish independence leader
- Ernie O'Malley (1897 – 1957), prominent officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and on the anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War; also a writer.
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