4.23 Number of private cars and motorcycles under current licence in 1915 and 20141 | ||
Year | Cars | Motorcycles |
1915 | 9,850 | 7,580 |
2014 | 1,943,868 | 36,573 |
Sources: Irish Motor Directory 1915-1916, Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Department of the Environment Northern Ireland | ||
1 Registered data for 1915 and licensed data for 2014, see Appendix 1. |
Photo: Mr. Meardon, Bonmahon mines, with group in motor cars, 1906
4.24 Number of cars under current licence by county in 1915 and 20141 | ||
Area | 1915 | 2014 |
State | 9,850 | 1,943,868 |
Leinster | 6,149 | 1,032,063 |
Carlow | 256 | 26,428 |
Dublin | 3,331 | 503,726 |
Kildare | 657 | 93,014 |
Kilkenny | 265 | 41,108 |
Laois | 141 | 30,743 |
Longford | 68 | 16,093 |
Louth | 192 | 47,300 |
Meath | 513 | 77,137 |
Offaly | 127 | 30,397 |
Westmeath | 221 | 37,220 |
Wexford | 177 | 66,173 |
Wicklow | 201 | 62,724 |
Munster | 2,193 | 567,372 |
Clare | 152 | 52,805 |
Cork | 847 | 239,743 |
Kerry | 162 | 65,478 |
Limerick | 391 | 84,344 |
Tipperary | 372 | 72,856 |
Waterford | 269 | 52,146 |
Connacht | 988 | 230,217 |
Galway | 243 | 104,380 |
Leitrim | 169 | 13,458 |
Mayo | 178 | 54,531 |
Roscommon | 123 | 30,454 |
Sligo | 275 | 27,394 |
Ulster (part of) | 520 | 114,216 |
Cavan | 128 | 28,980 |
Donegal | 231 | 61,352 |
Monaghan | 161 | 23,884 |
Source: Irish Motor Directory 1915 - 1916, Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport | ||
1 Registered data for 1915 and licensed data for 2014, see Appendix 1. |
4.25 Foreign and coastal trade at Irish ports, 19131 and 2014 | ||||||
'000 tonnes | ||||||
1913 | 2014 | |||||
Received | Forwarded | Total | Received | Forwarded | Total | |
Foreign trade | 5,724 | 4,928 | 10,652 | 27,787 | 16,772 | 44,559 |
Coastal trade | 7,529 | 8,360 | 15,889 | 1,296 | 1,628 | 2,924 |
Total | 13,253 | 13,288 | 26,541 | 29,083 | 18,400 | 47,483 |
Source:Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland | ||||||
1Data in 1913 refers to the island of Ireland | ||||||
Canals
1913 | 2014 | |
Foreign trade | 10652000 | 44559000 |
Coastal trade | 15889000 | 2924000 |
Rail
Electric trams in Dublin and Cork
Cork had a fleet of 35 electric trams in 1901, while Dublin had a fleet of 330 by 1911. The trams in Dublin operated on lines which ran for 60 miles (95.6 km) along the city's roads. The Lucan tram was the only service in Dublin to keep running during the Easter Rising of 1916.
The Dublin United Tramways Company, now known as Córas Iompair Éireann (CIE), opened its first bus route in July 1925, where the first route was the number 43 to Killester. Buses progressively replaced the trams until the closure of the last tram route, the number 8 to Dalkey on 10 July, 1949. In 2013, a total of 192.5 million passengers were carried on scheduled public bus services in Dublin.
In June 2004, the tram (light rail) service returned to Dublin with the opening of the Luas. By 2013 the Luas Red and Green lines were 37.2km (23.1 miles) in length and they carried 30.5 million passengers.
Railways
In 1916, there were over 3,500 miles (5,632 km) of railways on the island of Ireland, transporting passengers and goods. Most of rural Ireland was within 10 to 12 miles of a local railway station.
There were 964 train stations on the island of Ireland in 1916. This number had decreased sharply by 2014, when there were 144 stations open in the Republic of Ireland.
In 2014, there was 1,481 miles (2,384 km) of railways tracks which carried 37.8 million passengers on Irish Rail and Dart services.
Photo:Train at Abbeyleix Railway Station, Co. Laois
Photo: Maurice Scally, aviator, pilots and civilians 1932
Aviation
Although aviation transport was in its infancy in Ireland in the early 1900's, Denys Corbett Wilson, a pioneering Irish aviator, completed a 100 minute flight in April 1912 from Goodwich in Pembrokeshire to Crane near Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
After this, British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919, flying from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, Co. Galway in less than 72 hours.
There was also a small amount of mail carried on the flight, making it the first transatlantic airmail flight. By comparison, in 2014 a total of 217,125 flights passed through airports in the Republic of Ireland carrying 26.5 million passengers and 139,000 tonnes of freight.
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