Written answers
Friday, 6 September 2019
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Beef Industry
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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1460. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of suckler cows by county in tabular form. [36834/19]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The definition of suckler cows used for statistical purposes is beef cows who have calved at least once in their lifetime. The table below shows the number of suckler cows per county at the end of 2018:
2018
County | Sucklers |
---|---|
Carlow | 15,013 |
Cavan | 43,625 |
Clare | 67,299 |
Cork | 69,482 |
Donegal | 38,607 |
Dublin | 3,552 |
Galway | 96,959 |
Kerry | 43,227 |
Kildare | 16,995 |
Kilkenny | 30,966 |
Laois | 32,380 |
Leitrim | 25,591 |
Limerick | 32,493 |
Longford | 24,591 |
Louth | 11,117 |
Mayo | 71,276 |
Meath | 31,254 |
Monaghan | 30,325 |
Offaly | 29,640 |
Roscommon | 50,298 |
Sligo | 29,316 |
Tipperary | 52,594 |
Waterford | 18,959 |
Westmeath | 33,748 |
Wexford | 30,699 |
Wicklow | 21,391 |
Total | 951,397 |
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