Nearly 200 people in Galway City and County were in same-sex civil partnerships at the time of Census 2016.
Preliminary results just released by the Central Statistics Office show there were 101 people in the county in registered same-sex civil partnerships, while there were 87 in the city.
One of the people in the city was aged 85 years or more, according to a breakdown of the figures.
In County Galway, 91,121 were registered as being single and a further 71,038 were in their first marriage. There were 2,073 people who had remarried; 3,848 who had separated; 3,303 who had divorced and 7,906 were widowed.
In Galway City, 48,141 people were single on Census night, 23,418 in their first marriage, 845 had remarried and 1,693 were separated. A further 1,901 were divorced and 2,583 widowed.
Meanwhile, there has been a significant drop in the number of people who declared themselves as Roman Catholics in Galway the Census – down 8,799 (4.1%) on the 2011 figures to 207,068.
The number of people who stated they have ‘no religion’ has increased by 10,654 (68%) to 26,350, while 6,340 were recorded as ‘not stated’ – up 2,676 (73%).
There was also a significant increase in ‘other stated religions’ (which includes the Islamic faith amongst others) – up by 2,732 people (around 28%) to 12,601.
Other religions saw an increase, including Church of Ireland (including Protestant) up 63 to 4,637; Presbyterian up 49 to 789; Methodist/Wesleyan up 29 to 184 and Jewish up one to 89 people.
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