Ireland by county
Employment permits in County Meath
1,300 employment permits in 2026, 4.3% of the national total, ranked 5 of 27 by county.
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What the numbers say
1,300 permits for County Meath by the end of September 2026, already 104% of the 1,252 issued in the whole of 2025.
At the current pace 2026 would finish around 1,733, up 38% on 2025.
The busiest full year on record was 2024 with 1,511 permits. In 2010 the figure was 222. That is a 6.8-fold rise.
Year by year
Meath since 2010
222
2010
98
2011
59
2012
37
2013
58
2014
72
2015
149
2016
185
2017
170
2018
307
2019
321
2020
301
2021
1.1k
2022
1.1k
2023
1.5k
2024
1.3k
2025
1.3k
2026
115 applications refused in 2026.
All countys in 2026
Employers
Biggest permit users in Meath
- RE226permits in 20262,133 over 8 years
SS111permits in 2026141 over 3 years
KE47permits in 2026558 over 14 years
MM45permits in 2026479 over 9 years
KL42permits in 2026421 over 12 years
BLBlackden LimitedMeath38permits in 2026153 over 4 years
CM36permits in 2026218 over 9 years
KA23permits in 2026282 over 12 years- TF19permits in 202698 over 7 years
CN18permits in 202679 over 5 years
COCooksgrove LimitedMeath14permits in 2026206 over 14 years
LN14permits in 202632 over 3 years- AM14permits in 202622 over 2 years
KQ12permits in 202647 over 5 years
KP12permits in 202636 over 4 years- JOJoriding LtdMeath11permits in 202692 over 11 years
NC11permits in 202689 over 14 years
NN11permits in 202654 over 8 years
DS10permits in 202618 over 2 years
HS10permits in 2026
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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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