How to Do a Fuel Check in Seconds
A fuel check used to mean driving past three or four forecourts and squinting at the price boards. With FuelWatch it is a ten-second job on your phone. Open the map, let it find you, and the cheapest fuel near you is already on screen — colour-coded and sorted so you never have to guess. Here is the full flow:
- Open the live mapGo to app.fuelwatch.ie in any browser, or open the free FuelWatch app on iOS or Android. No sign-in is needed just to check prices.
- See live prices near youAllow location access and the map centres on you, surfacing the closest forecourts with their current petrol and diesel prices today.
- Read the colour codePins run green to red — green is the cheapest fuel near you, red is the dearest. The best value jumps out instantly, no maths required.
- Filter by petrol or dieselTap the fuel filter so the map shows only the fuel you actually buy. Prices and colours update to that fuel alone.
- Search by county, town, or EircodeHeading somewhere else? Type a county, town, or Eircode to run a fuel check anywhere in Ireland before you set off.
On a 50-litre fill, a 10 to 15 cent per litre difference between the cheapest and dearest nearby forecourt is €5 to €7.50 saved in one visit. Do a fuel check before every fill and that adds up to as much as €250 a year.
Live Prices Near You, Sorted Cheapest-First
The map is the heart of every fuel check. Each forecourt is a pin, and each pin carries today's price for the fuel you have selected. Rather than make you compare numbers by eye, FuelWatch colour-codes the whole map on a single scale:
Green pins are the cheapest fuel in your area; red pins are the most expensive. Switch to the list view and the same stations re-sort cheapest-first, with distance shown beside each one, so you can weigh a couple of cent saved against a few extra minutes' drive. Filter to petrol or diesel and the entire scale recalculates for that fuel — a forecourt that is cheap on petrol is not always cheap on diesel, and the colours tell you which is which.
What "Near Me" Actually Means
When you tap "near me," FuelWatch uses your device location to draw the map around exactly where you are standing — at home, at work, or halfway through a long drive. It then surfaces the closest cheap forecourts right now, so the answer is specific to this moment and this spot, not a generic county average.
Prefer not to share your location? You do not have to. Type any town, county, or Eircode into the search box and FuelWatch runs the same cheapest-first check for that area instead. That makes it just as useful for planning a route the night before as it is for a fuel check at the next junction. Your location is used only to centre the map and is never attached to a price you look up.
Coverage: 1,500+ Stations, All 32 Counties
A fuel checker is only as good as its map. FuelWatch covers 1,500+ forecourts across the island of Ireland — both the Republic and Northern Ireland — spanning the big retail brands and the independents in between.
That includes forecourts you already drive past every day — Circle K, Applegreen, Maxol, Texaco, Top Oil, Emo and many more — alongside the thousands of independent and rural stations that rarely show up anywhere else. From a Dublin commuter belt with a forecourt on every roundabout to a single pump on a country road in the west, a fuel check returns whatever is genuinely nearest to you.
How Prices Stay Current
FuelWatch is built to be live. Prices are updated in real time by drivers across Ireland as they fill up, so the figure on a pin reflects what people are actually paying today — not a stale board photographed last month. Every forecourt shows a freshness indicator so you can see at a glance how recently its price was confirmed, and newer reports take priority on the map.
To keep the numbers honest, each new report is sanity-checked against the going rate for nearby forecourts before it moves a price. A typo or a one-off outlier will not throw off your fuel check — the map favours the consensus of recent reports. The result is a map that updates continuously throughout the day and stays current without ever claiming an official or government price feed. This is the only place on this page that explains where the live data comes from; everywhere else, just trust the colours.
Fuel Check by County
Want to start your fuel check in a specific county? Jump straight to a county page for the cheapest petrol and diesel in that area, then open the live map to drill down to individual forecourts:
Not your county? Open the live map and search any town or Eircode in Ireland to run a fuel check wherever you are. For a wider look at national pump trends, see our petrol and diesel prices across Ireland page.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I check fuel prices near me in Ireland?
Open the FuelWatch map at app.fuelwatch.ie or in the app and allow location access. The map centres on where you are and drops a colour-coded pin on every nearby station, with the cheapest forecourts in green and the dearest in red. Tap any pin to see its current petrol and diesel price, or sort the list cheapest-first to find the best value within a few minutes' drive. No sign-in is needed to look up prices.
Is there a fuel checker for Ireland?
Yes. FuelWatch is a free fuel checker covering all 32 counties, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, with live petrol and diesel prices at 1,500+ stations. It works in any web browser at app.fuelwatch.ie and as a free app on iOS and Android. You can check by location, search a county, town, or Eircode, and filter to petrol or diesel.
How do I find the cheapest diesel near me?
On the FuelWatch map, switch the fuel filter to diesel, then let the map use your location. Diesel-only pins are colour-coded from green (cheapest) to red (dearest) so the best price stands out instantly, and the list view sorts the closest cheap forecourts to the top. The 10 to 15 cent per litre gap between the cheapest and dearest diesel nearby is often worth €5 to €7.50 on a single 50-litre fill.
Does FuelWatch show prices for my local petrol station?
Almost certainly. FuelWatch covers 1,500+ forecourts across Ireland, including Circle K, Applegreen, Maxol, Texaco, Top Oil, Emo, and thousands of independents. Search your town or Eircode to see the stations around you. If a local forecourt is missing or its price looks out of date, you can add the station or report the price you just paid right from the map.
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