A village vet in Carrick-on-Shannon for the pets that share your home and the animals that earn your living.
Dial 071 555 0298 during the day and tell us briefly what’s going on — we’ll tell you straight away whether it’s a visit to the Main Street practice or a call-out to the yard.
Dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, caged birds — all seen at the practice on Main Street. Quiet waiting area, separate cat entrance on Saturdays.
Cattle, sheep and horses, seen on the yard. Leitrim is farming country, and this is a working vet — not a pet boutique. Tom does most of the farm work.
Between them, Órla and Tom cover nearly everything Leitrim brings through the door or out into the yard. If something is outside what we do, we’ll tell you plainly and point you to a vet we trust.
Grew up just outside Carrick-on-Shannon. Spent five years in a busy Dublin-suburb practice before moving home to open Main Street Vets in 2019. Special interest in small-animal dentistry and soft-tissue surgery. Órla takes most of the routine small-animal consults and does all of the surgical work at the practice.
Grew up on a suckler-beef farm in north Leitrim. Does all of our TB testing, herd health plans, calving assistance and sheep work, and covers the horses that we take on. Tom lives 10 minutes from the practice, which matters at 3am on a calving.
These are our standard prices for the most common small-animal work. Anything non-routine we’ll quote on the phone or in the room before we start. Prices include VAT; card and Revolut accepted.
Tom runs farm call-outs across Leitrim and the near end of Roscommon. The truck carries standard drug ranges so most visits are one-trip, and we try to route calls in the same parish on the same morning to keep mileage fair.
Two vets can’t cover a county on their own, and we’d rather be honest about that than pretend. Outside practice hours we share a 24-hour emergency rota with two other VCI-registered practices — one in Sligo and one in Roscommon — so there is always a real vet on call for our clients.
A vet’s waiting room is the wrong last room. If you’d rather your pet’s last hour be in their own bed, by the fire, with you on the floor beside them — we’ll come to you. Appointments are booked quietly and can usually be made within 24–48 hours.
We carry everything we need for a calm sedation first, then the procedure. Cremation is arranged on your behalf with Pet Haven Crematorium in Sligo — group or private, your choice.
Beyond 20 km we add €1.50 / km. We’ll stay as long as you need — there is no rushed clock on this visit.
If the day phone is engaged during clinic, leave one short voicemail — we return calls between appointments. For anything urgent, ring the emergency line even during clinic hours and Órla or Tom will pick up.