Rents in Q2 of 2026 up 16.5% in Carlow and 13.4% in Kilkenny on previous year

The rate at which rents are rising are still high in the four major cities outside Dublin.

Rents from March to June were 13% higher in Galway city, 12% more in Cork and up 11% in Limerick than a year before.

For our local Kilkenny city the jump was 13.4% while Carlow saw a larger leap at 16.5%.

Daft.ie says there were just under 2,400 homes available to rent nationwide on August 1st, but rental homes in Dublin fell by 18% over the year.

Daft Report Author Ronan Lyons says there’s been a major jump in rents year-on-year.

Read the report in full here but here are some key takeaways from that;