NPWS Deer Hunting License
From 2024 Applications for Deer licenses must be made online on the NPWS Deer Licensing Portal.
See link to it below;
https://www.npws.ie/licencesandconsents/hunting/deer-hunting-licences
Deer Management
Deer Management is a complex issue, that involves many stakeholders working together to have sustainable levels of Deer in any area.
This Subject has been finally properly addressed in 2023, where the Irish Deer Management Strategy Group (IDMSG) produced a basis of how this can be done going forward;
Our Meeting in Portlaoise on 31.8.2023, was another step in that direction.
See below the presentation to that Meeting;
Presentation to the Deer Management Stakeholders Forum 31.8.2023
For more information in relation to Deer Management, and Deer generally contact the Chairman of our Deer Committee Shane O'Connor on 087 2451902 shane2684@yahoo.com
Deer Numbers Culled in Ireland by Species and County over the last years
https://opendata.housing.gov.ie/dataset/deer-shot-under-s29-licences-2015-2016-2022-2023
Section 44's issued over the last years.
https://opendata.housing.gov.ie/dataset/s42-licences-issued-deer-and-returns-for-2023-male-and-female
https://opendata.housing.gov.ie/dataset/section-42-by-county-2022-licences-issued-deer-shot