Almost 4,000 TAMS 3 applications have been approved in the Shannonside Northern Sound region.
The data follows a parliamentary question by Cork North-West TD John Paul O'Shea to Minister for Agriculture, Martin Heydon.
The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme or TAMS 3 provides grants to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings.
The average processing time for the vast majority of TAMS 3 applications are in line with the agreed targets as set out in the Farmers' Charter.
Approvals are issued within three months of ranking and selection of files under each tranche, and no longer than six months following the closure of a tranche.
Roscommon was next with 1,777.
In Co Longford, there were 1,106 and Leitrim's total is 957.
The national total, according to the figures, is 50,263.
