Where to buy yerba mate in Ireland: every shop compared

Yerba mate is easy to get in Ireland. Getting it at a sensible price is the harder part: the same bag can cost twice as much depending on which shop you open first, and delivery charges frequently matter more than the yerba does.

This is the map of who sells what. Live prices, sorted by price per kilo, are in the price comparison table.

Almacén Argentino — the widest range

A Dublin-based Argentinian grocer, online only. By some distance the biggest yerba catalogue in Ireland: around 21 brands and more than 80 individual products, with 500 g and 1 kg options for nearly every brand. Shelf prices are flat and low, and this is where you find the brand nobody else imports.

• Shipping: €7 within Dublin and Co. Dublin, €10 to the rest of Ireland including Northern Ireland. Free over €100.
• Delivery: Dublin orders arranged within 24 hours; outside Dublin, dispatched within two working days.
• Free collection in Dublin by prior arrangement.
• No published shopfront — it is an online operation with delivery.

The catch: its €100 free-shipping threshold is the highest in the country. If your order lands between €50 and €100, the delivery charge eats the price advantage. For a large order — or if you are in Dublin and can collect — nothing else comes close.

yerbamate.ie — the Galway specialist

A dedicated yerba shop based in Loughrea, Co. Galway, with roughly 20 brands and aggressive discounting: much of the catalogue sits on a sale price at any given time.

• Shipping: €9 under €50, €6 between €50 and €75, free from €75.
• Dispatch: within one working day. Note that this is dispatch, not delivery — allow courier time on top.
• Free local delivery in defined zones around Oranmore, Galway city and Loughrea on orders over €25.

This is usually the best landed cost in the mid-size band: a €75 order ships free here, where you would need €100 at Almacén. Do check stock — several well-known lines are listed but sold out.

Three Spoons — the one with a counter

A Cork tea, coffee and yerba shop with a physical premises on Market Parade, St Patrick’s Street, open Monday to Saturday.

• Shipping: €6.95 flat by DPD, 1–3 working days, free over €65.
• Range: about 8 brands — considerably smaller than the two specialists.
• Stock is patchy: several popular lines were out of stock when we checked.
• Shelf prices sit clearly above the specialists.

If you are in Cork, want to see the bag before you buy, or need yerba today, this is your shop. For stocking up by the kilo, it is not the cheapest.

Amazon.ie — the cheapest and the dearest at once

Amazon is genuinely bimodal, and this is the most useful thing to know about buying yerba in Ireland:

• Some third-party sellers list the cheapest kilo in the country. Taragüí Elaborada con Palo 1 kg and Rosamonte Tradicional 1 kg were both €9.99 when we checked — nothing in Ireland beats that on shelf price.
• Meanwhile, German-import listings are wildly overpriced: 500 g bags at €15.50, i.e. €31 per kilo, for yerbas that cost a third of that at Almacén.

Both extremes are real and both sit on the same search page. The rule: always read the price per kilo, never the price per bag, and check whether you are looking at a multipack.

• Free delivery over €25 on items dispatched by Amazon; free with Prime.
• Delivery is slower than the Irish shops — quoted dates on the listings we checked ranged from 4 to 16 days.
• Multipacks dominate the search results (3-, 6- and 10-packs), which makes per-bag prices look stranger than they are.

Browse yerba mate on Amazon.ie, or go straight to the Taragüí con palo 1 kg that usually sets the price floor.

Shops that do not sell Argentinian yerba

Two Irish shops come up constantly in searches for “mate” and are worth ruling out explicitly:

• Tea and Coffee (tea-coffee.ie) — sells two own-label “mate tea” blends with no stated pack weight. No Argentinian or Uruguayan brands.
• Down to Earth, 73 South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2 — a long-standing city-centre health food shop. Own-label mate and mate teabags only, no Argentinian yerba. But it stocks cheap bombillas, which makes it the fastest way to get a straw in Dublin the same day.

How much the price actually varies

Same day, same product, different shops:

• Taragüí Sin Palo 500 g: €6.40 at yerbamate.ie → €6.50 at Almacén → €8.00 at Three Spoons → €10.33 on Amazon. A 61% spread on an identical bag.
• Canarias 500 g: €6.40 → €15.50. A 142% spread — the widest we found.
• 1 kg always beats two 500 g bags on price per kilo, at every shop, without exception.
• Uruguayan Canarias carries a steady premium of roughly €2 per kilo over Argentinian brands in Ireland.

The shipping trap

Shelf price is not the same as what you pay. Real figures from our check, for one kilo of Taragüí:

The practical conclusion: never buy one bag. No shop in Ireland gets a single kilo to you for under about €17 all in. Order with two or three friends, clear the free-shipping threshold, and the same yerba costs about €10 per kilo. That is the single biggest saving available, and it is bigger than any brand or shop choice.

Quick decision guide

• Dublin, buying a lot → Almacén Argentino (collection, or over €100).
• Order of €50–€100 → yerbamate.ie (free over €75).
• Cork, or you want a counter → Three Spoons.
• Cheapest kilo, buying three → Amazon.ie.
• Need a bombilla in Dublin today → Down to Earth.

Then check the live comparison table before ordering — prices are hand-checked and dated, and the ranking moves. If you spot a price that has changed, tell us and we will fix it.

Prefer this in Spanish? See dónde comprar yerba en Irlanda.