Ireland by county
Employment permits in County Louth
629 employment permits in 2026, 2.1% of the national total, ranked 10 of 27 by county.
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What the numbers say
629 permits for County Louth by the end of September 2026, already 123% of the 511 issued in the whole of 2025.
At the current pace 2026 would finish around 839, up 64% on 2025.
The busiest full year on record was 2024 with 804 permits. In 2010 the figure was 105. That is a 7.7-fold rise.
Year by year
Louth since 2010
105
2010
73
2011
43
2012
28
2013
69
2014
149
2015
192
2016
269
2017
419
2018
361
2019
418
2020
308
2021
642
2022
649
2023
804
2024
511
2025
629
2026
42 applications refused in 2026.
All countys in 2026
Employers
Biggest permit users in Louth
AB160permits in 20262,801 over 14 years
WB62permits in 2026999 over 8 years
EH24permits in 2026116 over 8 years- KT24permits in 202653 over 2 years
FLFine Living LimitedLouth22permits in 202624 over 2 years
SUSuretank LimitedLouth14permits in 202684 over 5 years
RORototech LimitedLouth13permits in 2026
FL9permits in 202612 over 3 years
GC8permits in 202613 over 2 years- LM6permits in 2026114 over 11 years
CE6permits in 202653 over 8 years- JT6permits in 20267 over 2 years
PS5permits in 2026146 over 6 years
AFAlltec Fibre LimitedLouth4permits in 202630 over 7 years- ED4permits in 20268 over 2 years
- GSGF Solmara LimitedLouth4permits in 2026
MH3permits in 202655 over 5 years
CA3permits in 202611 over 4 years
DE3permits in 202610 over 3 years
CMColin Marmion LtdLouth3permits in 20267 over 2 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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