Market Signals

Irish construction market signals.

Readable source-linked analysis from the live PlanningBrief planning, appeal and tender datasets: where applications are concentrated, what project types dominate, and how value bands distribute.

Last updated 2026-06-21 09:02 UTC Planning feed ETL 2026-06-19 / 44796 public planning leads

Live planning dataset

44,796 public planning leads across 27 counties.

MetricValue
Latest measured week2026-06-19
Top county by countDublin
Top project classOne-off house
Open/current TED tenders787

Activity cluster

Dublin currently leads the index with 8,765 records (19.6% of the surfaced register).

Open county league tables

Project mix

One-off house is the largest project class at 21,071 records (47.0%), so use project-type pages to separate domestic, commercial and larger schemes.

Browse project types

Current signal

2026-06 contributes 431 records in the current month bucket; tender volume is strongest in Construction works with 186 notices in the imported sample.

Open tenders

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Applications by county

CountyCountShare
Dublin 8765 19.6%
Cork 3328 7.4%
Donegal 3251 7.3%
Galway 3125 7.0%
Wexford 1993 4.4%
Meath 1953 4.4%
Tipperary 1853 4.1%
Kerry 1785 4.0%
Limerick 1761 3.9%
Clare 1626 3.6%
Mayo 1591 3.6%
Kildare 1582 3.5%
Wicklow 1308 2.9%
Kilkenny 1246 2.8%

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Applications by project type

SegmentCountShare
One-off house 21071 47.0%
Planning record 7297 16.3%
Appeal/FI 2613 5.8%
Agricultural 2564 5.7%
Small residential 1758 3.9%
Commercial fit-out 1658 3.7%
Protected structure 1460 3.3%
Demolition 1381 3.1%
Commercial new build 1105 2.5%
Infrastructure 823 1.8%
Public / civic 739 1.6%
Small multi-unit 638 1.4%
Large residential 494 1.1%
Mixed use 408 0.9%

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Applications by month

SegmentCountShare
2025-10 2080 4.6%
2025-09 2055 4.6%
2025-12 1943 4.3%
2026-05 1914 4.3%
2025-08 1878 4.2%
2025-11 1779 4.0%
2026-02 1342 3.0%
2026-03 1243 2.8%
2026-01 1100 2.5%
2026-04 937 2.1%
2026-06 431 1.0%
Date unknown 1 0.0%

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Value-band distribution

SegmentCountShare
Unknown - verify 27924 62.3%
EUR 250k-500k 10669 23.8%
EUR <250k 2777 6.2%
EUR 500k-1m 1802 4.0%
EUR 1m-3m 733 1.6%
EUR 3m-10m 544 1.2%
EUR 10m-30m 214 0.5%
EUR 30m+ 133 0.3%

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Tender volume by CPV family

SegmentCountShare
Construction works 186 62.0%
Architecture / engineering 109 36.3%
Construction materials 5 1.7%
Ranked

County league tables

Rank counties by application count, estimated units and largest current project.

High value

Biggest projects

Largest current planning leads and construction tenders by value signal.

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