CastletroyCo. Limerick vs GalballyCo. LimerickTown level

The same comparison as the area page, but measured for the town itself, not the whole Eircode routing key.

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iCastletroy sits in V94, Galbally in E34. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it's actually measured at.
!Castletroy is a city suburb — its boundary follows the postal area (the Small Areas whose addresses carry the name), not an official settlement line, so it can run broader than the local core and the figures cover that wider postal patch.
Castletroy
Galbally

Outlines are each town's CSO Small Areas — the exact footprint every figure is measured over.

TOWNS
Castletroy
Co. Limerick · in V94 · pop 16,540 · 53 small areas
Galbally
Co. LIMERICK · in E34 · pop 269 · 1 small areas
Prices & market● TOWN · exact
Median sale price
€372k
€215k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€304k – €431k
€176k – €286k
Sales (24m)
501
8
Price momentum (YoY)
+0.1%
New-build share
4.3%
Schools, health & amenities● TOWN · counts
Count of each facility whose location falls inside the town boundary. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.
Schools
3 prim · 2 sec
1 prim · 0 sec
Castletroy · 6 schools (largest first)
Castletroy College Secondary
1,329 pupils · 75% to 3rd-level · INTER DENOMINATIONAL
Limerick City East Secondary School Secondary
714 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
University Of Limerick Third-level
enrolment n/a · university
Scoil Moin A Lin Primary
847 pupils · Catholic
Milford Grange N School Primary
479 pupils · Catholic
Gaelscoil Chaladh An Treoigh Primary
417 pupils · Catholic
Galbally · 1 schools (largest first)
S N Gallbhaile Primary
139 pupils · Catholic
Creches
12
1
GP practices
1
0
Pharmacies
6
0
Hospitals
1
0
Bus stops
34
1
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
0
0
Parks & playgrounds
0
0
Sports pitches
0
0
Commute by car● TOWN · from centre
Drive time from the town centre to each city centre — typical off-peak, with an estimated weekday rush hour. OSRM road routing.
Limerick
9m · ~15 rush
48m · ~65 rush
Cork
91m · ~115 rush
61m · ~85 rush
Galway
86m · ~110 rush
119m · ~145 rush
Waterford
118m · ~130 rush
92m · ~105 rush
Dublin
138m · ~175 rush
153m · ~190 rush
Affluence & profile● ELECTORAL DIVISION
Affluence (Pobal HP)
5.5
-8.6
Castletroy · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
+4BallysimonAffluent
+7BallysimonAffluent
Galbally · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-11GalballyDisadvantaged
-6GalballyBelow average
Third-level educated
59.5%
27.1%
Professional class
42.5%
33.8%
Unemployment
8.5%
13.6%
Owner-occupier
59.2%
73.8%
Private rental
37.9%
11.3%
Social housing (LA)
3.0%
10.1%
Liveability & safety● AREA · V94 / E34
Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (CastletroyV94, GalballyE34); safety & crime are the Limerick Garda division.
Quality of Life
62/100
66/100

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (V94 / E34) from official data — Garda crime, CSO income & census, OPW flood, EPA water, and transport/healthcare/broadband coverage. Refreshed quarterly. The dashed line is each town's overall score (that average) — dimensions to its right beat the average, to its left fall short. Two towns can share a score with a very different mix.

CastletroyGalballyOverall (avg)
Safety62426656
Affordability89100
Infrastructure8389
Family7275
Education4626
Environment6282
Economic4032
020406080100020406080100
National rank
#66
#35
County rank
#1
#2
Safety
42/100
56/100
Crime / 1,000
88.4
64.9

Affluence range

Pobal HP deprivation index — published per Electoral Division, so the spread shows the town's poorest to richest ED. A town that is a single ED shows one mark, no range.

Castletroy Affluent+5.5
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Ballysimon +4 (least affluent) → Ballysimon +7 (most affluent). Even its least-affluent neighbourhood is above the national average.
Galbally Disadvantaged-8.6
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Galbally -11 (least affluent) → Galbally -6 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

● TOWN
Prices, amenities & commute — exact, town-specific.

Prices come from individual PPR sales inside the town's Small-Area boundary; schools, GPs, transport, gyms and parks are counted the same way; commute is routed from the town centre. The figures the routing-key area page can't give you.

● ED
Affluence, profile & tenure — Electoral-Division level.

Pobal HP, third-level, class, unemployment, tenure are published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town's EDs — a range where the town spans several EDs (see the bar above).

● AREA
Liveability & safety — wider-area, not the town.

Quality of life and rank are per Eircode routing key; safety & crime are the Garda division (Limerick) — coarser than a town, so two towns in the same county read the same.

Population & growth are loaded for ~7 counties so far (not Leinster yet); rent & yield are too sparse per town. Tap Schools or Affluence to drill in. Built from 54 CSO Small Areas.
AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
CastletroyGalbally
The verdict

Castletroy is the stronger town on the data — it leads on 5 of the 7 dimensions to Galbally’s 2: affluence, education levels, schools & amenities, public transport and access to its nearest city. Galbally leads on safety and affordability.

Higher is better on every spoke — affluence, education, amenity density, transport, safety, affordability and nearest-city access, scored head-to-head.

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