Ireland's Padel Map, September 2026: 339 Courts, and Three Counties Off Zero

First published 1 September 2026; updated 27 September 2026. Every venue below was checked against a live booking system, an official planning record or the operator's own site. This is the monthly update to Ireland's padel court tracker.

The headline numbers

There are now 339 open padel courts across 95 venues on the island of Ireland — 223 courts in the Republic, 116 in Northern Ireland. That is 70 venues in the Republic and 25 in Northern Ireland. We track 146 locations in total once courts in build and in planning are counted.

On 1 September, when this roundup was first published, the figure was 302 courts at 88 venues (194 in the Republic, 108 in Northern Ireland). The Republic now has 4.33 open courts per 100,000 people, up from 3.77 at the start of the month.

August was not a month of big openings. It was the month two counties got their first courts at all — and the month the planning refusals started getting as much attention as the approvals. September was busier: a third county came off zero, an eight-court indoor venue opened in Dublin, and Let's Go Padel added another site in Tyrone.

Opened in September

Meath's first padel venue: Indoor Padel Ireland, Navan

Indoor Padel Ireland opened on Tuesday 22 September at Unit 4, Mullaghboy Industrial Estate, Navan (C15 AD9E) — the first padel venue in County Meath. Six indoor courts: five doubles and one singles, each listed individually on Playtomic with live availability from the 22nd.

Court prices: doubles €48 an hour (€72 for 90 minutes), singles €30 an hour (€45 for 90). Open 7am–11pm, seven days. Intro to Padel sessions with coach José Navarro are €35, and the operator is offering a free sauna with every booking until Christmas. See where to play padel in Meath.

West Wood Leopardstown — open, but members only

West Wood Club Leopardstown has opened its air dome at Leopardstown Racecourse, Dublin 18 — the operator's own blog announced it open, last updated 22 September. Eight indoor padel courts: five doubles, one singles and two Premier-Padel-style competition courts, plus two pickleball courts we don't count.

Booking is members-only. Members can bring guests, but the public cannot book a court directly. It goes on our map as open because it is — just not to everyone. See where to play padel in Dublin for venues you can book without a membership.

Let's Go Padel Strabane

Let's Go Padel Strabane opened on Friday 25 September at 8 Dublin Road Industrial Estate, Strabane (BT82 9EA). Four indoor panoramic courts — two doubles and two singles. Doubles are £24–32 an hour and singles £16–18. An Instagram post on 18 September said "coming this Friday", but the booking system showed no slots until the 25th, so we waited. Co. Tyrone now has 17 open courts across four venues.

Now bookable: Weavers Cross and Monaghan United

• Let's Go Padel Weavers Cross, Belfast — 4 indoor courts (2 doubles, 2 singles), now taking bookings on Playtomic. We have not been able to establish the exact opening date.
• Padel 100 at Monaghan United FC, Co. Monaghan — 3 outdoor panoramic courts, now bookable on Playtomic and listed as open on Padel 100's own site. Exact opening date not established. Monaghan now has 4 open courts across two venues. See where to play padel in Monaghan.

More courts at two existing venues

• Banner Padel Ennis, Co. Clare: 3 → 6. The soft opening is over. All six indoor panoramic courts are now listed and bookable, so all six now count. See where to play padel in Clare.
• PadelZone Celbridge, Co. Kildare: 5 → 8. The booking system now lists eight indoor doubles courts, all with open slots. See where to play padel in Kildare.

Added to the tracker this month — but not September openings

Two Dublin venues joined the map in September that did not open in September. We want to be clear about which is which.

• Halpenny Padel, Dublin Airport — 4 outdoor panoramic courts at Halpenny Golf Driving Range, Cloghran Road (K67 W611), €40 an hour. It opened in the second half of August — The Irish Padel Report described it as officially open on 31 August — but it wasn't in our 1 September roundup. We missed it; it has been on the tracker since this month's sweep.
• Charleville Lawn Tennis Club, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 — 2 floodlit padel courts at a members' club on Whitworth Road. This is an existing venue we had missed, not a new opening: we don't know when the courts first came into use.

Between them, the September openings, the extra courts and the two late additions take the island from 302 to 339 open courts and from 88 to 95 venues since this roundup was first published.

Opened in August: two counties off zero

Sligo finally has padel

Let's Go Padel Sligo opened in August on Finisklin Road in Rathedmond, Sligo (F91 XF38) — the first padel club in County Sligo. Until this month, anyone in the county wanting a game was driving to Letterkenny or Ballina.

Four courts: two indoor doubles, one indoor singles court, and one outdoor doubles court. All four are panoramic — full glass at the back rather than mesh. Three courts under a roof is what makes this venue work on the Atlantic coast: an indoor slot booked in November is a slot you actually play.

The singles court is the unusual part. There are very few in Ireland, and they are genuinely useful — cheaper per head and far easier to fill at short notice than finding three other people.

Court prices: doubles €30 for 60 minutes off-peak, €36 peak; 90 minutes €45 and €54. The singles court is €18–20 an hour. Coached intro sessions around €16 per person, club socials around €12.50. Open Monday to Friday 11am–11pm, weekends 9am–9pm, booking through Playtomic. The official grand opening was Saturday 5 September.

Split four ways, an off-peak hour is about €7.50 each — roughly what one hired racket costs at most clubs. See where to play padel in Sligo.

Clare's first courts — now all six

Banner Padel Ennis is open at Quin Road Business Park, Ennis (V95 D592) — the first padel venue in County Clare. The site has six indoor courts built. When this roundup was first published it was trading on a soft opening with three of them in play, and classes and socials were scheduled from 5 September.

We counted three, not six, because under our own rule a court is only open when you can book it today. By late September all six were bookable, so all six are now on the map. See where to play padel in Clare.

The Padel League of Ireland launched

On 1 August the Padel Federation of Ireland launched the Padel League of Ireland — an all-island competition with 33 clubs, 106 teams and more than 1,000 players in its first season.

That is the number worth holding onto this month. Courts can be announced, delayed and recounted. A thousand players entering a competitive league in a single month is demand you cannot inflate with a press release.

Approved in August: three courts in Stillorgan

St Benildus College, Kilmacud Road Upper, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin — three enclosed courts, applicant PM Padel Limited. Granted by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on 18 August 2026 under six conditions (ref D26A/0479/WEB).

This was a second attempt. An earlier application for the same three courts was refused on 23 April 2026 (ref D26A/0157/WEB) because the site falls within the reserved corridor for the Dublin Eastern Bypass. We can find no record of an appeal against that refusal — the applicant simply reapplied and got a different answer.

Just outside the month: Listowel, Co. Kerry — two modular courts for Padel Sports 100 Limited on John B. Keane Road, granted 31 July 2026 (Kerry ref 2660061).

The refusals are now part of the story

On 25 August the Irish Times published "Ireland's padel court building boom in full swing despite high-profile planning refusals" — the first mainstream coverage to give the refusals equal billing. The list is substantial:

• Padel Tennis Ireland, Bishopstown, Cork — 8 courts, refused February
• Spencer Dock, Dublin — 2 courts, refused February
• Swords Pavilion — 10 courts, refused March on MetroLink land reservation
• Mount Pleasant, Ranelagh — stalled on objections in July

Twenty courts refused across three decisions, plus one stalled. Set that against the 61 courts we now track as coming soon and the 46 with permission granted, and the refusal rate starts to look like a real constraint rather than a footnote.

The St Benildus case is the template: refused in April on a transport corridor reservation, granted in August after reapplication. Padel in Ireland is increasingly being built in the gaps between other people's infrastructure plans.

Coming next: what to watch

• Park Padel at Waterpark RFC, Waterford — 4 outdoor courts. Its Playtomic listing shows courts bookable from Wednesday 1 October, so an opening at the start of October looks likely. We'll count it when the first slot is live. See where to play padel in Waterford.
• House of Padel Belfast, Redcar Street — 8 courts (6 doubles, 2 singles) plus 3 pickleball courts across 33,000 sq ft, a £1.5m development. It had been expected at the end of September, but its Playtomic listing still reads "opening soon", with no bookable slots as far out as mid-October.
• Kingfisher Padel Club, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim — announced in May as Padel Society's second site. We have still not been able to confirm a court count or a bookable listing from any source. Announced, not open.
• Ballyhass Lakes, Mallow, Co. Cork — granted permission for 4 courts in May, and now has a Playtomic page showing four outdoor courts, but no bookable slots yet.
• Let's Go Padel Limavady, Armagh and Ballyshannon — all three listed as "coming soon" on the operator's own site, with no court counts published yet. Ballyshannon would be Donegal's third venue.
• Padel 100 at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, Sligo — 3 outdoor courts. Treat this one with caution: its Playtomic listing has been taken down, it no longer appears on Padel 100's own list of clubs, and a planning application for the site was withdrawn in September.

Corrections this month

Three court counts changed at the start of the month, all downwards, all for the same reason — we had been counting what was announced rather than what was bookable.

• Let's Go Padel Sligo: 10 courts → 4. The ten came from an early announcement. Playtomic lists the courts individually and there are four.
• Banner Padel Ennis: 6 → 3. Six built, three in play on a soft opening. (Now back to 6 — all six became bookable in September.)
• Let's Go Padel Newry: 4 → 2. Confirmed against the operator's own locations page.

We have changed the rule that governs this. Court counts now come from the operator's live booking system — Playtomic, Rallyd or Matchi, where courts are listed individually and can be counted one by one. A press release is a lead, not a figure.

That matters beyond our own tracker. The Padel Federation of Ireland told the Irish Times that 254 courts have been built in the State since the first Dublin court in 2012. We count 223 you can book today (194 when this roundup was first published). "Built" and "bookable" are different questions — but the gap between them is worth knowing about before you drive somewhere.

How we verify

Nothing goes on this map because someone said so. Open venues are confirmed by live, bookable slots on a booking system or by the operator's own site, and we count only the courts actually in play. Planned venues are confirmed against the planning authority's own record — application number, description and decision date. Applications merely lodged are labelled as such, not as approved. Where we cannot verify a court count, we do not publish one.

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