Figures from the Central Statistics Office show the Premier County has 173,200 cows while the 2016 population census has Tipp with 160,000 people.
In all Tipp accounts for 12% of the national dairy herd while there’s been an increase of over 7,000 cows in the county from 2017 to ’18.
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At 2,000 Leitrim has the fewest cows while Cork has the most at 378,000 or quarter of the national total.
