Donegal has the second most amount of sheep across the counties in Ireland
Figures were obtained from a Freedom of Information request to the Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs
Donegal has the second-most sheep on the whole island of Ireland, according to new data.
The figures were obtained from a Freedom of Information request to the Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs (DAERA) by Iconic Media and from the Ireland National Sheep and Goat Census 2023, which was compiled by the Republic’s Department of Agriculture’s Animal Identification and Movement (AIM) database.
Antrim (603,451), Donegal (526,658), Tyrone (446,005), Mayo (444,830) and Derry (408,969) make up the top five.
The county with the fewest sheep is Limerick, with 18,437. In total, the island of Ireland had 5,769,588 sheep, with 3,769,588 in the Republic and 2,046,834 sheep in the North.