Forestry Yearbook & Directory of Forestry Services in Ireland

About the Forestry Yearbook

The Forestry Yearbook Website was established to be used in conjunction with the ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook, which is regarded as the definitive directory and reference yearbook for the Irish forest industry.

The ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook is a substantial colour publication containing:

a range of articles on forestry topics
a comprehensive set of industry statistics
and an extensive directory of services for the sector.

The latest edition of the Yearbook has expanded beyond the confines of the forestry and timber industry to include all aspects of the renewable energy sector, environmental consultancy, mapping services, research, education, etc.

Copies of the Current Edition can be ordered Online.

The Forestry & Timber Yearbook is circulated to all sectors of the Irish Forest Industry including timber growers, wood processors and their customers, the timber trade, forest companies, contractors, foresters, forestry consultants, State agencies and financial institutions as well as the media.

Minister Hackett launches the 2024 ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook
Pictured at the launch, from L to R, Joseph Spollen of Bord na Mona (Yearbook co-sponsors), Mechteld Schuller, Irish Timber Growers Association (ITGA), Brendan Lacey (Chair ITGA), Donal Whelan (ITGA), Minister with responsibility for Forestry at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett and Donal Magner (Yearbook Editor). [Not featured: Yearbook co-sponsors Coillte and Murray Timber Group]

Photo: Eoin O'Driscoll

All directory listings featured in the Current ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook are included in the Online Forestry & Timber Directory.

Missed the deadline for our annual Yearbook publication? You can still get a Listing in the Online Directory

For a small fee, you can NOW take out a directory listing in this Online Forestry & Timber Directory. This directory listing would consist of your company details and a short description of your product or service. A logo can be added to your Online listing at a small additional charge.

Including a directory listing in our Online Forestry & Timber Directory is a very effective way to reach potential customers and the forest industry.

The Forestry & Timber Yearbook is an annual publication. To have a directory listing and/or advertisement included in the next edition of the Forestry & Timber Yearbook, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or contact our Advertising Co-ordinator Ben Quinn This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Current advertising rates can be found in our Advertising Rate Card

Production Team

Editorial & Design - Donal Magner

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Donal Magner, editor and forester has worked in most sectors in the Irish forestry and forest products industry including forest management and wood promotion with the Forest Service and Coillte and in his current roles as forestry communications consultant with Magner Communications, forestry editor with The Irish Farmers Journal and secretary of the Wood Marketing Federation. He holds a master’s degree in forestry from UCD and is the author of the critically acclaimed Stopping by Woods: A Guide to the Forests and Woodlands of Ireland and Why Forests? Why Wood? The Case for Multipurpose Forestry in an Uncertain Climate.

Co-editor of a number of publications including Woodspec – A Guide to Designing, Detailing and Specifying Timber in Ireland the comprehensive manual aimed at architects, engineers and designers, he is a recipient of the prestigious Royal Dublin Society-Forest Service Judges’ Special Award for his contribution to Irish forestry.

He is the Irish member on the Advisory Board of SIMWOOD, the EU body addressing timber mobilisation in Europe.

Yearbook Director - Donal Whelan

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Donal Whelan is an Agricultural Science (Forestry) graduate from UCD and is Technical Director of the Irish Timber Growers Association (ITGA) and principal of Commercial Forestry Services Ltd. forestry project management consultants.

Donal has worked on various industry initiatives and developed the ITGA Template Master Tree Sales Agreement, the ITGA Timber Sales Dispatch System and the ITGA Wood Price Quarterly (WPQ) information initiative which was developed in association with UCD. Donal was also engaged on ITGA submissions to Government including those relating to forestry taxation, the 2025 Agri-Food Strategy and the Forestry Bill.

A member of several industry groups including the COFORD Council, Donal was recently appointed chairman of the Forest Policy Review Group. He also compiled a series of five COFORD 'Forestry 2030' Papers with industry experts highlighting the contribution of Irish forestry to the State.

Directory Co-ordinator - Ben Quinn

Ben Quinn

Ben Quinn is Directory-Cordinator for the Forestry & Timber Yearbook.

For information on advertising or taking a directory listing in the next edition of the Forestry & Timber Yearbook, contact Ben Quinn at +353 (0)87 668 9915 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.