Commercial vacancies down in Carlow but still rising in KIlkenny

Carlow is just one of two counties in the country which has recorded a decrease in the number of empty commercial units for the second quarter of this year .

There was a slight reduction from 13.2% to 13.1% in the commerical vacancy rate for the last three months.

However Kilkenny saw an increase in the figure.

More than one-in-ten of the total number of commercial addresses in Kilkenny are now vacant according to the latest figures.