Just 10 farms drew down a combined €1.25m in Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS) funds in the 2025 financial year as part of the €1.88m in total CAP funds these farms received.

The largest BISS payment in the 2025 financial year – which covered monies received between 16 October 2024 and 15 October 2025 – went to Co Tipperary’s Shanrahan Farms.

Shanrahan Farms is listed on the latest Department of Agriculture CAP beneficiaries list as having received a BISS payment of €177,547 and total CAP payments of €284,696 for the year.

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The non-BISS elements of the farm’s payments include €82,251 in Eco Scheme funds, €12,720 in Area of Natural Constraint (ANC) payments and a Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers (CISYF) payment of €8,190.

Shanrahan Farms saw a €68,000 year-on-year rise in the size of its BISS payment, as the beneficiary’s total CAP payments jumped by just shy of €90,000.

The second-largest BISS payment of €136,857 went to Cullinane Partnership in Co Cork, which is a beneficiary name that did not appear in the equivalent beneficiaries published list one year ago.

This was in addition to over €40,000 in other scheme payments that included €22,811 in Eco Scheme funds and €5,264 for on-farm investment.

The third-largest BISS payment of €135,828 went to Co Meath’s Tallon Farm – which saw both its BISS payment increase as part of an overall CAP payment boost of around of €80,000 since the last Department beneficiaries list covering the 2024 financial year.

Tallon Farm’s overall CAP funding increase to €247,400 came predominantly from almost €60,000 in payments for on-farm investment and was aided by a year-on-year BISS jump of over €15,000 and a €5,000 Eco Scheme lift.

Next to appear on the list was the reps of John and Peter Queally in Co Waterford, who received €130,000 in BISS and a further €27,000 in non-BISS CAP funding.

Carlow, Meath and Galway farms

Co Galway’s Lisbeg Dairies saw its BISS payment increase by one quarter in the latest CAP database to take its draw down from the scheme to €116,684 and its overall CAP funding level to €178,959, up from €102,386 after a deduction of €4,668 had been taken from its previous year’s payments.

The dairy outfit’s payment rise can be put down in part to its claiming of €43,847 in Eco Scheme funds over the 2025 financial year, having not claimed any funding under the schemes for the climate and the environment in the year prior.

Lisbeg Dairies also availed of €8,190 in the latest beneficiaries list under CISYF that it had not been listed as having received in the previous list.

The next-largest BISS payment went to Co Meath’s Gillstown Dairy Partnership - €113,502 in BISS as part of total CAP funding of €160,629.

Gillstown Dairy Partnership was also among the top 10 recipients which had witnessed its CAP funding levels grow between successive Department beneficiary lists, despite the farm seeing a marginal drop in its BISS payment.

Co Carlow’s Park Farms Partnership saw its BISS payment drop by around €3,500 to €112,228 and total CAP funding levels decrease by approximately €20,000 to €202,291.

This was driven by the absence of coupled income supports and specific support direct aid that had been present on the 2024 financial year’s payment breakdown for the farm.

A Co Cork beneficiary appearing as ‘Ghillsdltd Tbrownaodonovan’ saw a BISS payment of €110,201 appear in its list of €155,698 in total CAP funds as the farm saw respective year-on-year funding slides of €10,000 and €20,000.

Next listed is the €108,393 in BISS received by a Kevin and Martin Byrne in Kildare, with this farm receiving an additional €68,000 in funds under agri-environmental headings.

Dublin’s Paud Flynn and Sons Limited finished off the top 10 BISS payment list for the 2025 financial year, with a BISS payment of €106,068 and just under €29,000 in other CAP scheme funding.