List of Vets in Ireland

Last updated 4 November 2026

There are 1,079 vets in Ireland, one in every 372 Irish companies. Most of them are small: three in five have one to four people, and only 14 firms employ 50 people or more. One in four veterinary clinics is based in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Naas. Below you find the largest veterinary clinics in Ireland, the cities where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our Irish company database or through the Company Data API.

1,079 companies indexed · Data counted on 4 November 2026

Companies1,0791 in372 Irish companiesCities221Largest cityDublin 112Sole traders1%Employees1-4 (62%)Revenue< $100K (74%)Email33%Phone50%Website42%

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	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	Comhlucht Iascaireachta Fanad Teoranta	Ireland	Letterkenny	O	Donegal	F92 T677	N/A	1979	$94,052,743	208	Corporation	232	66929
2	Monaghan Veterinary Laboratory LIMITED	Ireland	Monaghan	Clones Road	Monaghan	N/A	*****.ie	1976	$48,404,950	70	Corporation	8	54378
3	Bimeda Animal Health LIMITED	Ireland	Dublin	3 & 4 Airton House	Dublin	D24 YD89	*****.ie	2015	$39,179,543	94	Corporation	39	556610
4	Co-Operative Animal Health LTD	Ireland	Tullow	Tullow Industrial Estate	North Tipperary	R93 H951	*****.ie	1972	$30,958,720	50	Cooperative	3	0003077R
5	Acravet LIMITED	Ireland	Mallow	Units 8/9/10 Newberry Industrial Estate	Cork	P51 V093	*****.ie	2008	$28,737,077	23	Corporation	2	455862
6	Univet LIMITED	Ireland	Cootehill	Univet	Cavan	H16T183	*****.ie	1980	$26,974,316	92	Corporation	2	60307
7	Interchem (ireland) LIMITED	Ireland	Dublin	Unit 29	Dublin	D24 V9FP	*****.ie	2007	$21,275,898	32	Corporation	6	435741
8	Dogs Trust Ireland Company LIMITED By Guarantee	Ireland	Dublin	Ashbourne Road	Dublin	D11 K003	*****.ie	2005	$11,240,253	98	Corporation	N/A	396919
9	Independent Vetcare Ireland LIMITED	Ireland	N/A	Sunbeam Veterinary Hospital Northpoint Business Park	N/A	T23 FXY9	N/A	2018	$9,677,945	96	Corporation	984	633559
10	Acvg Veterinary Supplies LIMITED	Ireland	Monaghan	Tullyherim Armagh Road	Monaghan	H18 TF63	N/A	2016	$5,850,192	29	Corporation	346	575056
11	Belfield Emergency Veterinary Hospital LIMITED	Ireland	Dublin 4	Ucd Veterinary Hospital	Dublin	N/A	*****.ie	2013	$3,326,112	30	Corporation	2	524024
12	Imv Imaging Ireland LIMITED	Ireland	Gormanston	Unit 2 Block 3	Meath	K32ER81	*****.ie	2017	$2,306,027	17	Corporation	7	596241
13	The Irish Blue Cross	Ireland	Dublin 8	15a Goldenbridge Industrial Estate Tyrconnell Road	Dublin	N/A	*****.ie	2018	$2,166,001	25	Corporation	N/A	637671
14	Pawprints Cremation LIMITED	Ireland	Dublin	2nd Floor, Unit 50 Rosemount Park Drive	Dublin	D11 TK4C	*****.ie	2018	$1,980,924	9	Corporation	51	633483
15	Animal Health Ireland Initiative	Ireland	Carrick-on-shannon	2 - 5 the Archways	Leitrim	N41 WN27	*****.ie	2009	$1,775,869	20	Corporation	N/A	470675
16	Veterinary Pathology Group Ireland LIMITED	Ireland	Cork	South Cork Industrial Estate	Cork	T12 K26P	*****.uk	2006	$1,227,767	9	Corporation	8	431975
17	Munster AI Group LIMITED	Ireland	Cork	Ballyvorisheen	Cork	N/A	*****.ie	2007	$1,012,418	17	Corporation	50	433496
18	Munster Cattle Breeding Group LIMITED	Ireland	Mallow	Ballyvorisheen	Cork	P51 YF57	*****.ie	2007	$1,012,418	50	Corporation	50	445843
19	Zoetis Belgium S.A	Ireland	Dublin	Building 10	Dublin	D18 T3Y1	*****.ie	1950	$1,012,418	65	Foreign company	33	908417
20	Highfield Veterinary Unlimited Company	Ireland	Johnstown (carbury By)	The Mill	Kildare	W91 E6AC	*****.ie	2017	$1,012,418	7	Corporation	4	603608
21	Vetpartners Practices Ireland LIMITED	Ireland	Dublin	Riverside Two	Dublin	D02 KV60	N/A	2021	$1,012,418	33	Corporation	346	703229
22	Ark Animal Care LIMITED	Ireland	Newbridge	Unit 5a Athgarvan Road	Kildare	W12 YF63	*****.ie	1986	$1,012,418	17	Corporation	8	117201
23	Animalia Veterinary Centre LIMITED	Ireland	Tubbercurry	Sligo Road	Sligo	F91 W1XW	*****.ie	2020	$804,385	2	Corporation	N/A	679514
24	Cleaghmore Veterinary Practice LIMITED	Ireland	Ballinasloe	Claraycreagh	Galway	H53 K535	*****.com	2005	$506,256	3	Corporation	N/A	405187
25	Pius Fleming Veterinary LIMITED	Ireland	N/A	Veterinary Centre	Co. Kerry	N/A	N/A	2018	$445,325	3	Corporation	N/A	622741

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How many vets are there in Ireland?

Vets and veterinary clinics in Ireland

1,079

4 November 2026

There are 1,079 vets and veterinary clinics in Ireland in our data (4 November 2026). That is one in every 372 Irish companies. About 3 new firms are entered in the register every month this year (29 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 1,054 98%
Head offices: 23
Branch offices: 2

Classification

NACE Rev. 2 code 75. Our platform filter is NACE Rev. 2 75.

595 of the 1,079 are Ltd, DAC and PLC (55%); 14 are sole traders. They come from Companies Registration Office (CRO) and our Irish register data, through the Company Data API.

Where in Ireland?

Dublin has the most vets in Ireland (112), ahead of Cork (46), Galway (37), Limerick (37) and Naas (23). Together the five hold one in four of them.

Cities by number of firms

221 Irish cities have at least one veterinary clinic; 27 have ten or more; 101 have exactly one. Click a city to set the lens.

Veterinary clinics in Dublin

Dublin has 112 vets and veterinary clinics, <0.1% of all 118,946 Dublin companies and 65% below the national share. Half Dublin firms have fewer than five people; 5 have 50 or more. 0 new firms were entered in 2026, 5 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 57 · 51%
5-9: 27 · 24%
10-19: 9 · 8%
20-49: 13 · 12%
50+: 5 · 5%

Legal form

Sole traders: 0 · 0%
Partnerships: 2 · 2%
Ltd, DAC and PLC: 71 · 63%
Other or none: 39 · 35%

Of the Irish total: 10.4%
Of all Dublin companies: <0.1%
Against the national share: 0.4×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 0
Entered 2025: 8
Of Ireland's 2026 entries: 0.0%

Old

Before 1990: 5 · 4%
1990 or later: 107 · 96%
Of Ireland's pre-1990 firms: 20.0%

Reachable

Email: 44 · 39%
Phone: 51 · 46%
Website: 54 · 48%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 74 · 66%
$100K-$500K: 32 · 29%
$500K-$1M: 0 · 0%
$1M and more: 6 · 5%

Largest

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Largest veterinary clinics in Ireland

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in Dublin. Click a name for the record.

Comhlucht Iascaireachta Fanad Teoranta is the largest veterinary clinic in Ireland by headcount. 14 firms employ 50 people or more; 3 employ 100 or more.

1Letterkenny208 staff
2Dublin140 staff
3Loughrea131 staff
4Dublin98 staff
596 staff
6Dublin94 staff
7Cootehill92 staff
8Dublin · public body80 staff
9Monaghan70 staff
10DublinForeign company65 staff

By employee size · 1,073 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	664	62%
5-9	235	22%
10-19	116	11%
20-49	44	4%
50-99	11	1%
100-199	2	0.2%
200-499	1	<0.1%
500-999	0	0%
1,000+	0	0%

62% have 1 to 4 people; 44 have 20 to 49; 14 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	799	74%
$100K-$500K	254	24%
$500K-$1M	2	0.2%
$1M-$5M	12	1%
$5M-$10M	2	0.2%
$10M-$50M	7	0.6%
$50M-$100M	1	<0.1%

74% under $100,000; 12 between $1M and $5M; 10 above $5M.

Firm sizes in Ireland

Of the 1,073 Irish veterinary clinics with a known headcount, 664 (62%) have one to four people, 235 have five to nine, 160 have ten to 49 and 14 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over under $100,000 a year (799, 74%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all Irish companies

Micro under 10899 84%
Small 10 to 49160 15%
Medium 50 to 24914 1%
Large 250+0 0.0%

Grey line: the share among all Irish companies (87% have under ten staff).

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 8 more than $10 million.

firms were entered in 2026.

Newcomers in Ireland in 2026

29 veterinary clinics were entered in the Irish register so far in 2026, about 3 a month, after 54 in 2025. Ireland as a whole saw 18,598 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes 0.2% of the inflow.

372022
412023
342024
542025
292026 so far

29 of this year's 29 are Ltd, DAC and PLC.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1Greystones5 staff
2Galway2 staff
3Navan2 staff
4Listowel2 staff
5Baltinglass2 staff

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 10 agriculture companies for every veterinary clinic in Ireland.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Agriculture Companies	11,115	5%	85%
Farmers	10,691	5%	85%
Doctors	4,934	25%	81%
Pharmacy Companies	2,596	50%	33%
Vets	1,079	42%	62%
Horse Farmers	928	9%	88%

In other countries

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
The USA	85,142	1.3
Brazil	44,962	1.6
France	16,028	1.1
Germany	15,158	2.2
Poland	12,878	2.0
Ireland	1,079	2.7

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Sole traders or Ltd: how they are organised

One in seventy-seven Irish veterinary clinics work as sole traders, against 2% of all Irish companies. Three in five are Ltd, DAC and PLC.

Sole traders141%
Partnerships131%
Ltd, DAC and PLC59555%
No form on record or other45742%

Single-site: 98%
Head offices: 23
Branches: 2

All Irish companies: 2% sole traders, 0.3% partnerships, 83% Ltd, DAC and PLC.

How reachable are they?

Veterinary clinics are easier to reach than the average Irish company: 50% list a phone number and 42% a website.

Email361 33%
Phone538 50%
Website452 42%

Grey line: all Irish companies (email 14%, phone 22%, website 21%).

The full list with these fields is in our Irish company database.

The oldest firms in Ireland

Our data holds 3 Irish veterinary clinics from before 1900, 5 from before 1950 and 25 from before 1990.

1831
1. Dublin
1840
1. Dunboyne
1876
1. Dublin
1939
1. Kilkenny
1945
1. Dublin

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Frequently asked questions

How many vets are there in Ireland?

There are 1,079 vets and veterinary clinics in Ireland in our data, counted on 4 November 2026. That is one in every 372 Irish companies.

Which is the largest veterinary clinic in Ireland?

Comhlucht Iascaireachta Fanad Teoranta in Letterkenny, with 208 staff.

Which Irish city has the most vets?

Dublin, with 112, ahead of Cork (46), Galway (37), Limerick (37) and Naas (23).

How many veterinary clinics are there in Dublin?

112, which is <0.1% of all 118,946 Dublin companies and 65% below the national share.

How big is a typical veterinary clinic?

Small. 62% of the 1,073 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 14 have 50 or more. Most turn over under $100,000 a year.

Are Irish vets sole traders or companies?

One in seventy-seven (14) are sole traders, 1% are partnerships and 55% (595) are Ltd, DAC and PLC.

How many veterinary clinics started in 2026?

29 were entered in the Irish register so far in 2026, after 54 in 2025. 29 of them are Ltd, DAC and PLC.

What is the oldest veterinary clinic in Ireland?

Dublin Zoo Veterinary Practice in Dublin, 1831, followed by Village Vets in Dunboyne (1840) and Ywca of Ireland in Dublin (1876). 3 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers vets?

Irish vets are classified under NACE Rev. 2 code 75. Our platform filters them on NACE Rev. 2 75.

Can I download the full list?

Yes. All 1,079 firms with address, phone, email, legal form, employees, revenue and founding year, as Excel, CSV or through the API.

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