Ireland by county
Employment permits in County Cavan
420 employment permits in 2026, 1.4% of the national total, ranked 16 of 27 by county.
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What the numbers say
420 permits for County Cavan by the end of September 2026, already 84% of the 501 issued in the whole of 2025.
At the current pace 2026 would finish around 560, up 12% on 2025.
The busiest full year on record was 2022 with 667 permits. In 2010 the figure was 100. That is a 6.7-fold rise.
Year by year
Cavan since 2010
100
2010
44
2011
34
2012
17
2013
51
2014
76
2015
118
2016
152
2017
182
2018
299
2019
316
2020
235
2021
667
2022
312
2023
573
2024
501
2025
420
2026
73 applications refused in 2026.
All countys in 2026
Employers
Biggest permit users in Cavan
LM53permits in 20261,286 over 15 years- HH41permits in 202677 over 3 years
- CM37permits in 2026
OR21permits in 2026129 over 10 years
DM14permits in 202644 over 5 years
EB11permits in 202665 over 8 years
WH11permits in 202655 over 3 years
KF11permits in 202621 over 3 years
BC11permits in 202618 over 2 years
MC10permits in 202654 over 5 years
VT10permits in 202615 over 3 years- PB9permits in 2026
WW6permits in 202661 over 7 years- MM6permits in 202621 over 4 years
RE6permits in 202619 over 3 years
TMTavan Meats LtdCavan5permits in 202640 over 6 years- LB5permits in 202615 over 3 years
ELEsker Lodge LimitedCavan4permits in 2026116 over 13 years
SJ4permits in 202637 over 7 years
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Source: Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Employment Permit Statistics. Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. A permit issued to a company is a record of a past application. It is not a vacancy and not a promise of sponsorship.
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