Social Explorer announces first international mapping project–Irish religion data.  

As millions celebrate Ireland's patron saint and Irish culture this St. Patrick's Day, explore new data that help tell the story of the Ireland's religious history.

Explore Irish religion and population data from 1911 to 2001 through decades of political change. These data and geographies were compiled by Professor Ian Gregory of Lancaster University, from Troubled Geographies: A Spatial History of Religion and Society in Ireland (The Spatial Humanities).

Here is a map of the Roman Catholic population in 1926–shortly after the Irish War of Independence, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and the establishment of the Irish Free State. (The panel on the right offers a closeup of Dublin.)

Click around to explore or visit Social Explorer's Irish maps to trace the nation's religious and political history.  

Stay tuned for Social Explorer's future international projects.