Deer cull figures for the years 1994/95 to 2014/15 based on returns submitted annually by licensed hunters have been made available by the National Parks & Wildlife Service.

The figures are broken down by county and by deer species (red deer, fallow deer, sika deer and red/sika hybrids) and by gender.

They show a gradual increase in the annual cull from 4749 deer in 1995 to 31589 deer in 2015.

The data can be downloaded as an Excel Worksheet here Deer Cull Returns 1995-2015