Ireland has seen an accelerating urbanisation of economic activity and population for generations. In the 1920s, around half the employed labour force was engaged in primary agriculture. It is now official policy, enshrined in the July revision of the National Planning Framework, to counter what it sees as the excessive growth of Dublin, the only large city, and to urge “balanced regional development”.  But Dublin’s share in the national population has been stuck around 29 per cent in more recent decades and much faster growth has been elsewhere in Leinster, notably in counties Meath and Kildare. Distant Gorey in Co…

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