About Veterinary Care in Dublin
This guide to vets in Dublin helps pet owners compare county-wide veterinary options based on services, animal coverage, and availability. It brings together local provision and practical differences between practices across Dublin, Ireland so you can shortlist clinics that fit your needs.
Top-rated veterinary clinics in Dublin
There are 84 veterinary clinics in Dublin, with an average Google rating of 4.7★. 80 clinics treat dogs and cats. 7 clinics offer farm or large-animal services. 0 clinics are listed as offering emergency or out-of-hours care. No 24-hour veterinary cover is explicitly confirmed anywhere in the county in the available data.
Dublin includes 38 towns. Examples include Skerries, Tallaght, Dun Laoghaire, Blanchardstown, Lucan, Malahide, Swords, and Rathfarnham. Availability and the local service mix can vary by town, so it’s useful to check whether a nearby clinic matches your animal type and the level of care you expect.
Across the county, the core service base is built around companion-animal care, with 80 dog-and-cat clinics out of 84 total providers. Within the county you can find routine consultations and preventive care, surgical work, diagnostic testing (such as lab work and imaging), and dental care, as evidenced in clinic-level descriptions and reviews for leading practices. County-wide engagement is high, with 58,962 total reviews across clinics, and most providers publish key information online (77 clinics have websites), which supports faster comparison of opening hours, appointment processes, and scope of care.
Emergency and out-of-hours access is not a defined part of the county-wide provision in the available dataset: 0 clinics are listed as offering emergency or out-of-hours care. In practical terms, this means most owners should expect care to be organised around standard opening hours and scheduled appointments rather than guaranteed after-hours coverage. If your pet has a time-critical problem, you’ll need to confirm directly with your chosen clinic how urgent cases are handled and what arrangements exist outside normal hours, because the county-level data does not identify dedicated emergency provision.
Veterinary nurse (VN) training is also not represented in the county dataset: 0 clinics are listed as offering VN training. This indicates there are no publicly flagged VN training sites within the county coverage used here, so owners should not assume a clinic participates in formal VN placements when choosing where to register. For pet owners, this mainly affects expectations around how a practice structures its nursing team and whether training activity is part of day-to-day operations; in this dataset, clinics are operating without listed VN training provision.
Mid-ranked and routine-focused practices make up much of the practical day-to-day capacity across the county. These clinics typically underpin access for vaccinations, parasite control, monitoring of stable long-term conditions, repeat prescriptions, and non-urgent consultations, and they also help distribute demand across towns with different population densities. For many households, a nearby routine clinic is the most efficient choice for ongoing care, with escalation to more complex work handled by clinics that offer broader diagnostics and surgical capacity.
Overall, Dublin has strong depth for companion-animal provision, while farm, equine, and specialist/exotic services are concentrated among a smaller number of providers (7 farm clinics, 6 equine clinics, and 6 specialist/exotic clinics).
Clinics in the county are primarily companion-animal focused (dogs and cats), with a smaller mixed-practice segment covering farm animals and equine work.
In summary, Dublin offers a large companion-animal clinic base with good review coverage and widespread online information, but without county-listed emergency/out-of-hours or 24-hour provision; use the ranked clinic list above to select the best fit for your pet and the services you need.
Freshness: January 2026 — based on publicly available review and service data.
Top Vets in Dublin
Highly rated veterinary clinics across Dublin, ranked by service quality and reviews
Assisi Veterinary Clinic describes itself as providing a wide range of medical, surgical, dental, diagnostic and emergency care, including out-of-hours emergency cover for clients. Based on both the website and recent reviews, it appears set up for complex cases as well as routine care: owners describe urgent admissions after accidents, pre‑anaesthetic checks (including heart checks and tests in an older cat), and major procedures including amputation and urgent surgery. Reviews also repeatedly mention hands-on follow-up and communication, including being “always in touch,” quick responses, and one account of home visits after surgery.
Concrete examples owners mention include: a dog treated for stage three liver and kidney failure; a cat given pain relief, X‑rays, and then paw amputation after trauma; dental descaling; and staff helping identify a found cat’s owner.
Assisi Veterinary Clinic describes itself as providing a wide range of medical, surgical, dental, diagnostic and emergency care, including out-of-hours emergency cover for clients. Based on both the website and recent reviews, it appears set up for complex cases as well as routine care: owners describe urgent admissions after accidents, pre‑anaesthetic checks (including heart checks and tests in an older cat), and major procedures including amputation and urgent surgery. Reviews also repeatedly mention hands-on follow-up and communication, including being “always in touch,” quick responses, and one account of home visits after surgery.
Concrete examples owners mention include: a dog treated for stage three liver and kidney failure; a cat given pain relief, X‑rays, and then paw amputation after trauma; dental descaling; and staff helping identify a found cat’s owner.
Village Vets Stillorgan is part of the Village Vets group. Based on recent client experiences, the practice handles routine care (like puppy health checks and worming) as well as more complex cases including surgery and ongoing follow-up appointments. Owners also mention practical processes such as online booking with email confirmation, and a “pet plan” option (no pricing/details stated). Reviewers repeatedly describe a welcoming arrival experience, including staff interacting with dogs to help them settle.
Village Vets Stillorgan is part of the Village Vets group. Based on recent client experiences, the practice handles routine care (like puppy health checks and worming) as well as more complex cases including surgery and ongoing follow-up appointments. Owners also mention practical processes such as online booking with email confirmation, and a “pet plan” option (no pricing/details stated). Reviewers repeatedly describe a welcoming arrival experience, including staff interacting with dogs to help them settle.
Bull Wall Veterinary Clinic is presented on its website as aiming for a compassionate standard of care, and the latest reviews describe a practice that handles day-to-day pet care as well as more complex situations. Owners mention long-term support over many years (including end-of-life care for a dog), and also describe the clinic treating species some other practices declined—such as a guinea pig. Several reviews give concrete examples of decision-making that prioritised the pet’s needs over rushing into procedures (trying home management first, then proceeding to surgery when needed) and fitting patients in quickly when the situation changed.
Bull Wall Veterinary Clinic is presented on its website as aiming for a compassionate standard of care, and the latest reviews describe a practice that handles day-to-day pet care as well as more complex situations. Owners mention long-term support over many years (including end-of-life care for a dog), and also describe the clinic treating species some other practices declined—such as a guinea pig. Several reviews give concrete examples of decision-making that prioritised the pet’s needs over rushing into procedures (trying home management first, then proceeding to surgery when needed) and fitting patients in quickly when the situation changed.
Clontarf Veterinary Clinic
North Dublin City
Our Score (95/100)
Clontarf Veterinary Clinic is part of Anicare Vets and is certified by the Practice Accreditation Board of the Irish Veterinary Council. Based on the information available, it appears set up for both routine care and urgent problems: reviewers mention being accommodated at short notice, stabilisation for a serious injury (bandaging and medication), and referral onwards when needed. Owners also describe specific practical touches such as a separate side-door option for dogs that struggle around other animals, and follow-up contact after an urgent visit to check how a pet was doing.
Clontarf Veterinary Clinic is part of Anicare Vets and is certified by the Practice Accreditation Board of the Irish Veterinary Council. Based on the information available, it appears set up for both routine care and urgent problems: reviewers mention being accommodated at short notice, stabilisation for a serious injury (bandaging and medication), and referral onwards when needed. Owners also describe specific practical touches such as a separate side-door option for dogs that struggle around other animals, and follow-up contact after an urgent visit to check how a pet was doing.
Dundrum Veterinary Clinic
South Dublin City
Our Score (95/100)
Dundrum Veterinary Clinic is part of the South Dublin Vets group. Based on the website and recent reviews, it appears set up for routine day-to-day veterinary care with responsive advice between visits (including photo-based triage and a vet call-back), plus support for ongoing needs like prescription renewals and diet management (owners mention a “great selection of specialty food for all types of issues”). Reviewers also describe the team successfully handling difficult-to-examine cats and being consistently friendly with dogs over multiple years of visits.
Dundrum Veterinary Clinic is part of the South Dublin Vets group. Based on the website and recent reviews, it appears set up for routine day-to-day veterinary care with responsive advice between visits (including photo-based triage and a vet call-back), plus support for ongoing needs like prescription renewals and diet management (owners mention a “great selection of specialty food for all types of issues”). Reviewers also describe the team successfully handling difficult-to-examine cats and being consistently friendly with dogs over multiple years of visits.
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