Revealed: National Lottery reveals where Irelands biggest lottery wins are!
102 National Lottery millionaires created since 2020 with Dublin, Cork, Galway and Mayo leading the way with big wins
The National Lottery have created a massive 102 brand new millionaires since 2020 with over 1,100 players sharing over €470 million alone in high tier prizes across all draw-based games.
This is according to the National Lottery ‘high tier prizes report’ which captures all draw based game prize wins (Lotto, EuroMillions, Daily Million, Telly Bingo & Millionaire Raffle) in excess of €15,000 (€10,000 for online wins) from January 2020 until January 2023.
In 2021, approximately 90% of all revenue generated from sales of National Lottery games was returned to communities in the shape of prizes (56%), funding Good Causes (29%) and commission to retailers (5%) all over Ireland.
Since 2020, Dublin has unsurprisingly topped the charts for National Lottery wins with over €68 million paid out to 275 players, 22 of which won prizes in excess of €1 million.
In the last three years, ten separate millionaires were made in Co. Cork while Galway and Mayo have had six new millionaires each. Mayo’s biggest winners includes the record-breaking Lotto jackpot win of €19.06 million which was claimed by a Mayo family syndicate in January 2021.
Online players continued to win big for the past three years also with 194 winners claiming over €95 million in high tier prizes. Included in these winners were 17 brand new millionaires, the biggest of which was a Dublin player who scooped a EuroMillions jackpot worth €49.5 million in July 2020.
Already in 2023, a total of four brand new millionaires have been made in the Lotto game alone with the biggest win of the year in Foynes, Co. Limerick which seen a Lotto jackpot prize worth €11.1 million claimed by a syndicate. There was no winner of last Saturday’s (11th February) Lotto jackpot worth over €3.9 million which means that Wednesday’s jackpot is heading for a life-changing €4.5 million.
National Lottery High Tier Winner Data (Draw Based Games): 2020 – 2023*
County |
No. High tier winners |
Total value of high tier prizes |
No. Millionaires (2020-2023) |
Carlow |
13 |
€3,342,040 |
1 |
Cavan |
16 |
€3,317,016 |
0 |
Clare |
21 |
€5,646,418 |
1 |
Cork |
98 |
€36,230,885 |
10 |
Donegal |
28 |
€6,624,163 |
2 |
Dublin |
275 |
€68,682,085 |
22 |
Galway |
53 |
€21,481,878 |
6 |
Kerry |
43 |
€18,510,242 |
5 |
Kildare |
32 |
€5,172,544 |
1 |
Kilkenny |
26 |
€28,569,745 |
3 |
Laois |
18 |
€3,585,716 |
2 |
Leitrim |
5 |
€254,402 |
0 |
Limerick |
30 |
€17,060,870 |
4 |
Longford |
15 |
€932,517 |
0 |
Louth |
21 |
€3,552,955 |
2 |
Mayo |
55 |
€47,947,886 |
6 |
Meath |
47 |
€21,449,435 |
5 |
Monaghan |
7 |
€1,341,059 |
1 |
Offaly |
25 |
€1,591,296 |
0 |
Online (National Lottery App/www.lottery.ie) |
194 |
€95,520,429 |
17 |
Roscommon |
15 |
€2,783,731 |
1 |
Sligo |
10 |
€2,950,005 |
2 |
Tipperary |
23 |
€32,405,169 |
1 |
Waterford |
27 |
€5,525,768 |
3 |
Westmeath |
25 |
€10,963,901 |
3 |
Wexford |
34 |
€13,439,281 |
4 |
Wicklow |
27 |
€1,1887,591 |
0 |
* Statistics compiled from National Lottery prize claims data from draw based games from 1st January 2020 – 26th January 2023. High tier prizes are defined as prizes in excess of €15,000 (€10,000 for online wins). All prize claims data correct as of 26th January 2023.
** National Lottery draw based games include: Lotto, EuroMillions, Daily Million, Millionaire Raffle & Telly Bingo.
Nearly 30 cent in every €1 spent on all National Lottery games goes back to Good Causes in the areas of sport, youth, health, welfare, education, arts, heritage, and the Irish Language. In total more than €6 Billion has been raised for Good Causes since the National Lottery was established 35 years ago. In 2021 alone, €304 million was raised for local Good Causes in communities across Ireland.
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