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while Galway city and county were host to the next largest group of non-Irish nationals - 10.7 per cent of the local population. </p><p>Kilkenny had the lowest percentage of non-Irish nationals at 7 per cent. </p><p>Some 40 per cent of the 2,646 residents in the small town of Gort in Co Galway, identified themselves as non-Irish nationals. Of these, some 83.3 per cent were Brazilian. </p><p>Meanwhile in Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, 36 per cent of residents said they were non-Irish nationals. Of the 588 strong group, 327 people were EU nationals - mainly from Eastern Europe - and 163 were Asian. </p><p>Of the 122,000 people who immigrated into Ireland in the twelve months before the census, 83,000 (68.2 per cent) were single, and of these 51,700 (62.2 per cent) were in their twenties. </p><p>The census figures also reveal that 65 per cent of the 4.2 million usual residents of the State lived in their county of birth. </p><p>Cork city and county (76.9 per cent) had the highest proportion of its usual residents born in the same county followed by Donegal (73.5 per cent). </p><p>Some six out of ten people living in Meath in April 2006 were born outside the county followed by Kildare, where 59 per cent of residents were born outside the county. 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