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3.5.
Maps from the LISA autocorrelation analysis of district-level percentages
showing the type of spatial autocorrelation present between neighboring districts
based on the percentage of their populations recorded as Catholic.
1911 but were formed by 1926, and the clear disparity in the 1911 and 1926
percentages for these districts is an extreme example of the error that
can arise as a consequence of using spatial interpolation to estimate
values for the standardized districts. For the other districts, which were
created before partition and for which boundary changes have been less
dramatic, the interpolation errors are likely to be much less extreme.
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The second chart for the districts in the Irish Free State/Republic
of Ireland area highlights the much smaller fraction of districts there in
which percentages of non-Catholics approached the levels in Northern
Ireland. Moreover, the distribution of circles suggests a general decrease
in these percentages in 1926. Some of the greatest changes were in dis-
tricts with large British military garrisons, and the evacuation of Crown
forces en masse
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1922 is the primary reason for the much lower per-
centages in 1926 in towns such as Athlone and Fermoy as well as the rural
district of Naas, No. 1, which was home to the Curragh Camp, the British
Army's main infantry base in Ireland.
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Conversely, Buncrana Urban
