A palomino looking out of a stable door, the yard behind

Livery & leasing

Forty-five stables,
and the mountain out the back.

Full and half livery for horses and ponies at every level, plus leasing. Priced after a visit, never before one — come and walk the yard first.

Ask about a stable Ring +353 87 223 7981

45: stables at Woodside Road
3,000: acres through the back gate
Daily: turnout, every horse

This is the one thing on the site you cannot book online, and that is deliberate. Everything else here takes four screens and a card. A stable is a year of your horse’s life, and the price depends on the horse and on what you want done — so we quote after you have walked the yard, not before. We reply within one working day.

What is here

What comes with the stable.

Covered all-weather arena

Schooling in February, in the rain, after work.

Horse walker

Legs moving on the days nobody can get up to ride.

Rubber matting under dust-free shavings

Softer to lie on, and far less dust in the air.

Automatic drinkers

Water in every box, all day, without anyone carrying a bucket.

Five feed types

So a good doer and a hard keeper are not on the same ration.

Fenced paddocks with daily turnout

Out every day, weather allowing. Not a queue for a field.

On-site tack shop

Hats, boots, rugs, and the girth that broke on Sunday. The tack shop

Free parking and horsebox access

Bring the lorry up to the yard and load without a three-point turn.

A rider cantering a dark bay horse across the grass field beside the stables

Two ways to keep a horse here

Full livery, or half.

Everything done

Full livery

The yard does the day. Feeds, turnout and bringing in, beds, hay and water, rugs on and off. You come up when you can, take the horse out of a clean box, ride, and go home. It is what most working owners take, and what most people mean when they say they keep a horse at a yard.

On requestmonthly, after you have seen the yard

Shared

Half livery

We take the parts that have to happen at a fixed hour — the feeds, the turnout, the water — and you take the rest. It costs less, and it suits people who are up at the yard most days anyway and would rather do their own horse than pay somebody else to.

On requestmonthly, after you have seen the yard

Horses and ponies, at every level, from a first pony to something out competing at weekends. Whatever you take, the split is written down before the horse arrives — that way nobody is guessing on a wet Tuesday in November.

A day at the yard

What happens whether you come up or not.

Needs pro shoot

Needs pro shoot

The walker and the stable block. Both photographs are ten years old and it shows — the yard is owed a morning with a proper camera.

First thing

Heads counted, rugs and water checked. Feeds made up — five types are kept, so nobody is fed the same thing as the horse next door.

Morning

Out to the fenced paddocks. Every horse gets turnout every day; when the ground will not take it, the walker and the covered arena do the work instead.

Through the day

Beds done — rubber matting under dust-free shavings — and the automatic drinkers checked box by box.

Evening

In, fed, hayed and rugged. A last look down the row before the yard is shut for the night.

Leasing

Or lease one, instead of buying.

A lease is a horse of your own for an agreed stretch of time, without the sale at the end of it. You ride it, you get to know it, and when the arrangement finishes it comes back to us. It is the honest middle step between a weekly lesson and owning outright.

It suits a child who has outgrown one lesson a week and is not ready to own, and an adult who would rather ride the same horse every Saturday than meet a different one each time. Ponies as well as horses — and some of them are palominos.

What sits inside a lease is agreed horse by horse: how often you ride, who covers the farrier and the vet, whether the horse stays on the yard or moves. It goes in writing before anything starts, which is the only way an arrangement like this stays friendly.

A young rider with her trophy at a summer show

The next step

Come and walk the yard first.

Ten minutes down the rows will tell you more than any price list can. Look at the beds, watch a turnout, meet whoever will be doing your horse at seven in the morning. Then we talk about money.

About the horse — age, height, temperament, and anything it does not like.
About the arrangement — what you want done, and what you would rather do yourself.
About timing — roughly when you would want to move, and for how long.

Three ways to start

Phone+353 87 223 7981

WhatsAppMessage the yard

Emailinfo@paddocks.ie

Send a livery enquiry

Visits welcome, Wed – Sun. We reply within one working day.

Before you ring

Questions we get asked first

What does full or half livery cost?

On request, after you have seen the yard. The monthly figure depends on the horse and on how much of the day you want us to do, so quoting a number before we have met either of you would be guesswork. Ring, or send the enquiry form, and you will get a plain monthly price with nothing hidden underneath it.

Can I come and look around first?

Please do — we would rather you did. The yard is open Wed – Sun, 9 am – 6 pm · 7 days in school holidays. Walk the rows, look at the beds, watch a turnout, and ask whoever is about whatever you want. Nobody will follow you around with a price list.

Do you take ponies as well as horses?

Yes. Full and half livery for horses and ponies at every level, from a first pony to a horse out competing at weekends. Forty-five stables, so there is usually room, but the good ones go quickly in September.

Is there turnout every day, and what happens in bad weather?

Every horse goes out daily into fenced paddocks, weather and ground allowing. When it will not, the horse walker keeps legs moving and the covered all-weather arena stays usable no matter what the sky is doing.