Town comparison · Drumcollogher vs Patrickswell

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Drumcollogher or Patrickswell?

Both towns measured at town level, not the wider Eircode area, on the same 52 figures: prices, schools, amenities, social life, commute, affluence and safety.

Drumcollogher, Co. Limerick · P56 · 509 people | Patrickswell, Co. Limerick · V94 · 848 people

Drumcollogher and Patrickswell are closely matched. Each leads on 2 of the 7 dimensions, with 3 level.

Drumcollogher leads on
safetyaffordability
Patrickswell leads on
education levelsaccess to its nearest city
182014

Drumcollogher aheadlevel or not comparablePatrickswell ahead

AffluenceEducationAmenitiesTransportSafetyAffordabilityCity access
DrumcollogherPatrickswell
iDrumcollogher sits in P56, Patrickswell in V94. Each figure below is tagged with the geographic level it’s actually measured at. The town ahead on a row is the one in green. Scores and percentages are charted against a true 0 to 100 scale; every other row is charted against the larger of the two towns, so the bars compare but don’t imply a ceiling.

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

Drumcollogher
Patrickswell

Size

TOWN · census

Resident population at the 2022 CSO census, summed over the Small Areas that make up each town. Not scored: a bigger town isn’t a better one, it just explains why the counts below differ.

509
Population
848

Prices & market

TOWN · exact
€176k
Median sale pricelower is better
€375k
Drumcollogher leads
€146k – €193k
Typical range (P25–P75)
€344k – €441k
3
Sales (24m)
76
N/A
Price momentum (YoY)
N/A
N/A
New-build share
68.4%

Schools, health & amenities

TOWN · counts

Facilities in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. Bigger towns naturally score higher — read alongside population.

1 prim · 1 sec
Schools
1 prim · 0 sec
Drumcollogher leads
Drumcollogher · 2 schools (largest first)
Hazelwood College Secondary
563 pupils · 70% to 3rd-level · MULTI DENOMINATIONAL
St Josephs Primary
80 pupils · Catholic
Patrickswell · 1 schools (largest first)
Scoil Tobar Padraig Primary
137 pupils · CatholicDEIS
1
Creches
1
N/A
GP practices
N/A
0
Pharmacies
1
Patrickswell leads
0
Hospitals
0
2
Bus stops
6
Patrickswell leads
0
Rail / Luas stops
0
0
Gyms & leisure
1
Patrickswell leads
1
Parks & playgrounds
0
Drumcollogher leads
5
Sports pitches
4
Drumcollogher leads

Social life

TOWN · counts

Places to eat, drink and go out in and around each town — each counted once, for the town it’s closest to. The residents per venue row is the fairer read — raw counts just track town size, so a big town wins by being big.

0
Restaurants
1
Patrickswell leads
1
Cafés
0
Drumcollogher leads
3
Pubs & bars
1
Drumcollogher leads
2
Takeaways
0
Drumcollogher leads
0
Nightclubs
0
0
Cinema & theatre
0
85
Residents per venuelower is better
424
Drumcollogher leads

Day-to-day

TOWN · counts

The errands you run without thinking about them. Same caveat — read the residents-per-service row alongside the counts.

0
Supermarkets
0
2
Convenience shops
2
2
Bakery, butcher & greengrocer
2
1
Banks
0
Drumcollogher leads
1
Post offices
1
1
Hairdressers
2
Patrickswell leads
0
Dentists
0
0
Vets
0
1
Filling stations
2
Patrickswell leads
0
EV charging
0
2
Library & community centre
0
Drumcollogher leads
51
Residents per shop or servicelower is better
94
Drumcollogher leads

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.

50m · ~70 rush
Limericklower is better
14m · ~25 rush
Patrickswell leads
66m · ~90 rush
Corklower is better
78m · ~100 rush
Drumcollogher leads
120m · ~145 rush
Galwaylower is better
84m · ~110 rush
Patrickswell leads
132m · ~145 rush
Waterfordlower is better
124m · ~140 rush
Patrickswell leads
180m · ~215 rush
Dublinlower is better
144m · ~180 rush
Patrickswell leads

Affluence & profile

ELECTORAL DIVISION
-6.2
Affluence (Pobal HP)
-6.4
Drumcollogher leads
Drumcollogher · 2 EDs, poorest → richest
-6DromcolliherBelow average
-6DromcolliherBelow average
Patrickswell · 1 EDs, poorest → richest
-6PatrickswellBelow average
24.2%
Third-level educated
31.0%
Patrickswell leads
28.8%
Professional class
33.2%
Patrickswell leads
7.7%
Unemploymentlower is better
8.4%
Drumcollogher leads
71.2%
Owner-occupier
80.2%
Patrickswell leads
14.2%
Private rental
8.5%
6.6%
Social housing (LA)
8.7%

Liveability & safety

AREA · P56 / V94

Wider-area figures, not the town. Quality of life & rank are for the whole Eircode area each town sits in (DrumcollogherP56, PatrickswellV94); safety & crime are the Cork City Garda division.

63/100
Quality of Life
62/100
Drumcollogher leads

Quality of Life is the equal-weighted average of these seven 0–100 dimensions, scored for the whole Eircode routing area (P56 / V94) 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.

DrumcollogherPatrickswellOverall (avg)
Safety63616242
Affordability10089
Infrastructure4283
Family8172
Education4046
Environment8062
Economic4040
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#23
National ranklower is better
#66
Drumcollogher leads
#5
County ranklower is better
#1
Patrickswell leads
61/100
Safety
42/100
Drumcollogher leads
58.8
Crime / 1,000lower is better
88.4
Drumcollogher leads

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.

Drumcollogher Below average-6.2
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Spread across the town: Dromcolliher -6 (least affluent) → Dromcolliher -6 (most affluent). Every neighbourhood is below the national average.
Patrickswell Below average-6.4
← more deprivednational avg · 0more affluent →
Single Electoral Division (Patrickswell) — below the national average.

How accurate is this, and at what level?

TOWN
Prices, amenities and commute are exact and 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.

ED
Affluence, profile and tenure are Electoral-Division level.

Published per Electoral Division and averaged across the town’s EDs, with a range where the town spans several.

AREA
Liveability and safety are wider-area, not the town.

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

Population growth isn’t shown: the 2016 and 2022 censuses don’t use the same Small Areas, and the areas that were re-cut are the ones that grew, so a like-for-like comparison understates growth badly. Rent and yield are still too sparse to show per town. Built from 7 CSO Small Areas.

Homes for sale in Drumcollogher

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