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LEADER in COUNTY MEATH County Meath Local Development Strategy Area Profile LEADER IN COUNTY MEATH County Meath Local Development Strategy Area Profile LEADER Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 County Meath [0] Table of Contents County Meath Local Development Strategy Area Profile ................................................................... 1 Area Selection ..................................................................................................................................... 1 Map of County Meath .......................................................................................................................... 1 Overview of County Meath................................................................................................................... 1 Population ............................................................................................................................................ 2 Social Classes ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Commuter Community ......................................................................................................................... 3 Education Profile .................................................................................................................................. 4 Employment Profile .............................................................................................................................. 4 Unemployment Profile ......................................................................................................................... 5 Youth Unemployment .......................................................................................................................... 6 The Economy....................................................................................................................................... 7 Tourism ................................................................................................................................................ 8 Artisan Food ........................................................................................................................................ 9 Agriculture ......................................................................................................................................... 10 Creative & Craft Industries ................................................................................................................. 11 Equine Sector .................................................................................................................................... 13 Renewable & Green Sectors ............................................................................................................. 13 Foreign Direct Investment .................................................................................................................. 14 Mode of Transport to Work Among People Working in Meath ........................................................... 14 Quality of Life – Relative Index of Deprivation/Affluence ................................................................... 14 Rural Towns....................................................................................................................................... 15 Broadband & Connectivity ................................................................................................................. 17 Gaeltacht Villages in Meath ............................................................................................................... 17 Impact of Recession on Rural Towns ................................................................................................ 19 Requirement for Sub-region Derogation in Respect of Population Limit ............................................ 20 Review of Key Services and Programmes in County Meath .............................................................. 20 Concise Summary of Area Needs Analysis ....................................................................................... 24 [0] County Meath Local Development Strategy Area Profile 1. Area Selection The Local Development Strategy (LDS) for the LEADER element of the Rural Development Programme 2014 - 2020 has been formulated in the context of County Meath as a sub-regional area within Ireland. There are no census towns as defined for the 2011 Census of Population within county Meath; therefore the entire territory as defined by the county boundary is subject to this LDS. 2. Map of County Meath 3. Overview of County Meath County Meath covers an area of 234,490 hectares, approximately 3.3% of the total area of the state. Navan is the principal urban centre, the county town and the seat of the main administrative functions of local government. As a county, Meath is located within the Greater Dublin Region and development trends in parts of the county are considerably influenced by the opportunities and pressures emanating from the Dublin metropolitan area. Population growth within Meath has not been evenly distributed across the county and a large percentage of the county footprint still comprises typical rural, agrarian communities particularly in the North and West of the county which borders the Border Midland and Western region. The county has a diverse low-lying topography that includes extensive rich pastures throughout the Boyne and Blackwater river valleys, some drumlin hills in the north, tracts of peatland and raised bog in the southwest and a short coastline of 12 kilometres in the east. The landscape contains an extremely rich heritage of national monuments, including the internationally renowned passage tombs at Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth and Loughcrew. In addition the landscape includes Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), - the prime wildlife [1] County Meath Local Development Strategy Area Profile conservation areas in Ireland, one Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA) – the Boyne Estuary - as well as many Natural Heritage Areas (NHAs). While Meath is a fundamentally prosperous location, and the evidence shows this, there is a strong sense that it has not fulfilled its economic potential over the years. This is manifest in the comparatively narrow economic base of the county, in which Meath does well in regard to a small number of activities, including agriculture and traditional manufacturing like engineering and mining. But the extent of market-led knowledge activities is comparatively low in the county and there is a substantial ‘leakage’ in the form of outbound commuting and retailing. Moreover, while Meath is host to a number of highly valued foreign-owned employers, located in different parts of the county, FDI remains low (inquiries and site visits by potential inward investors have been very low, and FDI job announcements as well as the proportion of all employment in the county accounted for by foreign-owned firms are small). The Meath Economic Development Strategy supports this assessment of the local economy and states “that educational attainment is lower in Meath than elsewhere in the country: in particular, the proportion of people with third-level or higher educational attainment is lower in Meath than elsewhere in the GDA and in the State, and this finding applies whether we take all residents, residents of working age or those at work within the county i.e. the relatively low third-level or higher educational attainment rate in Meath is robustly demonstrated by data analysis and may be explained as a function of the narrow economic base characterising the county and the comparative paucity of knowledge-based employment therein”. 4. Population In 2011, Meath had a population of 184,135, consisting of 91,910 males and 92,225 females. Between the censuses in 2006 and 2011, Meath’s population grew by 13.1%. This figure is higher than for the State (8.2%), the GDA (8.5%) and the Mid-East Region (11.7%). The fastest growing EDs are Newtown (45.5%), Crossakiel (36.4%) and Castlerickard (36.1%). The map overleaf from the Maynooth University Economic Baseline Study (2013) shows the distribution of population changes between 2006 and 2011 within the electoral divisions (EDs) in Meath. The map reveals varied population change during the period, with strong growth observed on the border with Dublin, along the principal transport nodes (motorways) but also to the west of the county. [2] County Meath Local Development Strategy Area Profile While there has been a continuous decline in the age dependency rate (the proportion of population under 15 years of age or over 64 as part of the total population) in Meath in the period between 1991 and 2006, (39.6% to 31.4%), the age dependency rate for Meath saw a pronounced increase to 34.1%, a rise above the national average of 33% in 2011. Meath recorded the largest youth population in the State with 53,400 residents (29% of the population) aged 18 years or under. Within Meath, there exists the typical urban-rural differential, with Navan Urban/Rural (Pt.) at 27.2% and Donaghmore at 27.9%. Age dependency rates exceed 40% in six EDs, Ballinlough (46.6%), Kilskeer (42.1%), Killyon (40.9%), Ballyboggan (40.5%), Kilmainham (40.2%) and Kildalkey (40.2%), all of which are more rural in character. 5. Social Classes According to the social class indices used by the CSO and based on occupation just over 52% of the population in County Meath in 2011 were classified in the top three social classes which include professional workers, managerial and
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