Approximately 315 farmers received a basic payment of over €100,000 in 2015. Counties Meath, Cork and Tipperary, in that order, had the most number of farmers receiving basic payments over this amount.

Meanwhile, counties Monaghan and Sligo had no farmers receiving a basic payment of over €100,000 in 2015.

The Department of Agriculture published details on Tuesday of payments made to all farmers last year.

The average payment was highest in Dublin, at €19,669 per farm, while Cork received the largest chunk of farm payments, with over €200m paid to more than 13,000 farmers.

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2015 farm payments highest in Dublin as Department publishes individual details