Dates for your Diary

ITGA plans a number of events annually.
We have a range of field events planned for 2023. Preliminary details are listed below. 
ITGA members will be circulated with itineraries and details of events and further information will be posted on this site as it becomes available. For further details, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Field days in 2023 will include an ITGA-IForUT themed woodland walk to the 2019 RDS-FS Forestry Award winning Clonad Woodlands.

• Thursday 9th March 2023: ITGA field day to 'Beyond the Trees' in Avondale Forest Park, Co. Wicklow. 
• Friday 26th May 2023: ITGA field day to Glennon Brothers Timber, Fermoy, Co. Cork. 
• Friday 9th June 2023: ITGA field day to National Botanic Gardens, Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow - Incorporating ITGA AGM.
• Friday 29th September 2023: ITGA-IForUT Forest Food Walk and Wild Food Foraging in Clonad Woodlands, Tullamore, Co. Offaly. [Itinerary has been circulated to Members; Please register by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]
• Friday 20th October 2023: Joint ITGA-Western Forestry Co-op field day to HSE Cloonamahon Woodland Park, Collooney, Co. Silgo. [Itinerary has been circulated to Members; Please register by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]

Webinar Series

Following on from the November 2021 series of webinars, ITGA in conjunction with FORESTRY.IE and with the support of the Irish Farmers Journal, hosted another a series of webinars in 2022.
Duration of each webinar was approx. 1½ hours.
This Webinar initiative received funding approval from DAFM under the Woodland Support Projects 2021/2022

Last Year's Dates and Webinar Themes:

• Thursday 31st March 2022  - 'Use of Earth observation, Satellite and Drone Technology in Forestry' 
• Thursday 10th March 2022 - 'Encouraging Biodiversity in Forests'
• Thursday 10th February 2022 - 'Forest Fire Prevention & Control' 

Recordings of these and other past webinars are available on https://www.forestry.ie/insights and on our Webinar page.

Event Planner 2023

Wider 2023 Forestry Events 

Dates and venues listed in the above Event Planner in the 2023 ITGA Forestry & Timber Yearbook may be subject to change, due to the nature of the publication date. See above list of ITGA events, for most up to date 2023 ITGA events. For more information on other third-party events, please contact the event organisers.

Other Forestry Events

FORESTRY.IE - Forestry Events Calendar
Society of Irish Foresters' events
CPD programme for Forestry Professionals Upcoming events
Teagasc Forestry events