According to the Census 2011 results, there were 49,204 Muslims in Ireland in April 2011, a sharp rise on five years previously.
Ireland's Muslim population included 8,322 primary school aged children and 3,582 of secondary school age.
Since 1991, the number of Muslims increased from just 0.1 to 1.1 per cent of the total population.
Also, Muslims were highly concentrated in urban areas with only 2.1 per cent in rural areas, while almost half (49.2%) were in the Greater Dublin area alone.
The full report is available on the CSO website at www.cso.ie/census along with all the data which is available in a range of interactive web tables, allowing users to build their own tables by selecting the data they are interested in and downloading it in an easy to use format for their own analysis.
