About the Forestry Yearbook
The ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook is an annual Irish Timber Growers Association publication and 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 comprehensive set of industry statistics and an extensive directory of services for the sector.
Recent editions of the Yearbook have 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 from our Online shop.
All directory listings featured in the Current ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook are included in this Online Directory.
The ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook is circulated annually in December 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.
The ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook is launched each year by the Minister of State for Forestry.
Pictured at the launch of the 2026 ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook (L to R) Mechteld Schuller, ITGA; Patrick Murray, Murray Timber Group – Yearbook sponsors (Coillte and the Irish Timber Council also sponsors – not in photo); Minister of State for Forestry, Michael Healy-Rae TD; Brendan Lacey, Chair ITGA.
Sponsors of the 2026 Forestry & Timber Yearbook Publication
The 2026 Edition of the Forestry & Timber Yearbook received generous support from the Murray Timber Group, Coillte and the Irish Timber Council.
The support from COFORD, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Forest Service, Teagasc, advertisers, contributors and all those who consistently support the Forestry Yearbook, especially Directory subscribers, is also gratefully acknowledged.
Yearbook Production
Donal Whelan – Yearbook Director
A prominent voice in Irish forestry, he has chaired the COFORD Forest Policy Review Group and currently represents ITGA on the DAFM Forest Strategy Consultative Committee, the Forest Windblow Taskforce, and other sector bodies.
He has authored key forestry submissions to Government and pioneered ITGA initiatives such as the Template Tree Sales Agreement and the Wood Price Quarterly (WPQ) database with UCD. A consortium led by Donal delivered a Group Certification system that saw the first forest owner group certificate awarded in Ireland.
Woodlands under his management have won past RDS-FS National Forestry Awards.
Donal Magner – Yearbook Editor
Donal Magner has worked in the public and private sector with the Forest Service, Coillte and in his current roles as forestry communications consultant and forestry editor of the Irish Farmers Journal.
He holds master’s degrees in forestry from UCD and literature from DCU. He is the author of Stopping by Woods: A Guide to the Forests and Woodlands of Ireland (2010), Why Forests? Why Wood? The Case for Multipurpose Forestry in an Uncertain Climate (2024) and Seamus Heaney Walk: Glanmore-Devil’s Glen Forest (2025).
A recipient of the RDS-Forest Service Judges’ Special Award for his contribution to Irish forestry,
he is Environment Chair of Rotary Ireland and is project manager of Wood Awards Ireland since it was established in 2014.