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4.2 Ennis
Healthcare Figure 15 to Figure 17 show that healthcare services are predominantly located within the town centre along a north-south axis, with dentists, GPs and pharmacies surrounding the area of O’Connell Street. On the north end of Gort Road there is Ennis General Hospital and St Joseph’s Hospital, which also has a nursing home department. On Harmony Row in the town centre there is a health centre. Pharmacies are located mostly in the town centre with one in the north-east and another in the south-west. There are three nursing homes in Ennis, with a nursing home in St. Joseph’s and two located to the south of the town. “The population of Ennis at the time of the 2016 census was 25,276, which marked a slightly decline of 0.3% be- tween 2011 and 2016”
4.2.1 Demographics Preliminary demographic analysis was undertaken to understand the current population statistics in Ennis. The population of Ennis at the time of the 2016 census was 25,276, which marked a slightly decline of 0.3% between 2011 and 2016. Residential car ownership statistics were also extracted from CSO to understand if there is a trend in car ownership, which may have an adverse effect on the ’10 Minute Town’ concept. Car ownership in 2016 has slightly increased in Ennis in comparison to 2011, with 85% of households owning one or more cars in 2016, compared to 84% in 2011. 4.2.2 Location of services It is important to understand the location of services (i.e. healthcare, education, leisure and public transport) to establish if there is a general trend. As mentioned in Section 3, the locations of services were identified through desktop analysis and were verified by Local Authority contacts as well as colleagues who are resident in Ennis.
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