CRO register data
Irish Company Register Statistics 2026
A reproducible snapshot of company distribution and recent register activity calculated from the Businesses.ie mirror of public Companies Registration Office records.
Migration snapshot — not a live CRO feed
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Irish Company Formation Report — Q2 2026
7,616 incorporations, county-by-county growth, dissolution trends and a carefully labelled register-status retention proxy—with permanent CSV downloads for journalists and researchers.
674,162
Records assigned to a county
26
County labels represented
7,120
Incorporated in the last 90 days
8,676
Currently strike-off listed
A further 306 records currently carry the “Struck Off” status in this snapshot.
County distribution
Registered company records by county
| Rank | County | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dublin | 372,299 | 55.2% |
| 2 | Galway | 28,245 | 4.2% |
| 3 | Meath | 24,910 | 3.7% |
| 4 | Kildare | 24,418 | 3.6% |
| 5 | Limerick | 22,643 | 3.4% |
| 6 | Cork | 18,443 | 2.7% |
| 7 | Louth | 16,887 | 2.5% |
| 8 | Wicklow | 16,849 | 2.5% |
| 9 | Kerry | 14,958 | 2.2% |
| 10 | Clare | 14,533 | 2.2% |
| 11 | Donegal | 13,958 | 2.1% |
| 12 | Tipperary | 13,790 | 2.0% |
| 13 | Waterford | 11,765 | 1.7% |
| 14 | Mayo | 11,066 | 1.6% |
| 15 | Wexford | 10,923 | 1.6% |
| 16 | Kilkenny | 7,822 | 1.2% |
| 17 | Offaly | 6,558 | 1.0% |
| 18 | Westmeath | 6,483 | 1.0% |
| 19 | Monaghan | 6,245 | 0.9% |
| 20 | Cavan | 6,162 | 0.9% |
| 21 | Laois | 5,750 | 0.9% |
| 22 | Sligo | 5,622 | 0.8% |
| 23 | Carlow | 5,438 | 0.8% |
| 24 | Longford | 3,722 | 0.6% |
| 25 | Leitrim | 2,757 | 0.4% |
| 26 | Roscommon | 1,916 | 0.3% |
Methodology
How to interpret this snapshot
Counts are calculated from the Businesses.ie database mirror of public CRO company records. County totals use the county label attached to each record; records without a usable county are not included in the county total.
Recent incorporation and status counts are operational register snapshots, not seasonally adjusted official statistics. They can change when CRO records are added, corrected or refreshed.
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