Almost one hundred pubs closed down in Kerry in the last twenty years.
That's according to a new report commissioned by the Drinks Industry Group of Ireland.
The report shows a continuing decline in the number of pubs in Ireland, with 2,119 - or one in four - closing their doors since 2005.
Rural pubs showed the biggest decline.
In Kerry, there were 503 pubs trading in 2005 - that was down to 404 by 2024, a decline of 19.7 percent.
Compiled by Economist at DCU, Anthony Foley, the report also shows that an average of 112 pubs stopped trading every year, with a further 600 to 1,000 closures estimated over the next decade.
DIGI claims the high cost of doing of business is a major contributory factor to the alarming rate of closures recorded by the report.
It says that without immediate action by the Government, many villages and small towns will soon lose their last remaining pub, which would deal a devastating blow to the economic and social fabric of that community.
They've called for the Government to use the upcoming Budget to introduce a 10 percent cut in excise, which currently stands as the second highest in the European Union.
