Health and beauty is a clear fourth in Ireland, ahead of food and beverages.
Ireland · shop categories
What Irish online shops sell, by category
Apparel and accessories is the largest category of online shops in Ireland, ahead of business and industrial and home and garden, which rank close together.
- Online shops with a category
- ~35,000
- Largest category
- Apparel & Accessories
- Then
- Business & Industrial, Home & Garden
- Most used platform
- WooCommerce
September 2026
Arts and entertainment ranks sixth in Ireland, ahead of sporting goods and hardware.
Vehicles and parts ranks only fourteenth here, behind office supplies.
Shop categories in Ireland, by number of shops
Each shop is counted once, under its main category.
- 01Apparel & Accessories~7,600
- 02Business & Industrial~4,800
- 03Home & Garden~4,400
- 04Health & Beauty~3,300
- 05Food & Beverages~2,300
- 06Arts & Entertainment~2,100
- 07Sporting Goods~2,000
- 08Hardware~1,600
- 09Media~1,300
- 10Pet Supplies~1,100
- 11Furniture~1,000
- 12Electronics~820
- 13Office Supplies~810
- 14Vehicles & Parts~780
- 15Toys & Games~380
- 16Cameras & Optics~370
- 17Baby & Toddler~350
What this means
What to do with it.
Ireland is apparel first, then two mid-sized lists in business and industrial and home and garden. Below food the groups are short, so work arts and entertainment, sporting goods and hardware as full lists rather than sampling them.
Target Irish apparel retailers first, then home and garden and health and beauty, each matched to a company and a buyer before outreach.
Recruit Irish fashion and home and garden sellers with their own checkout, and prioritize those already selling to a second country.
Deliver Irish lists by the top four categories; below food the groups are short enough to hand over in full.
Common questions
- What do most online shops in Ireland sell?
- Apparel & Accessories is the largest category, with ~7,600 shops, followed by business & industrial (~4,800).
- How many Irish online shops sell home & garden?
- ~4,400 online shops in Ireland have home & garden as their main category, the third largest category in the country.
- Can I get a list of Irish online shops by category?
- Yes. Pick the category and the cut you want, for example shops that advertise now or run a given platform, and we return the matched companies with the people to reach.
Keep in mind
- Each shop sits under one main category; a store selling clothing and gifts appears once, under its leading range.
- Category size counts shops, not sales; narrow by size or ad activity before you commit effort.
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