The volume of roundwood removals, which is wood in its natural state removed from Irish forests, went up by 18% from 4.4 million cubic metres in 2024 to 5.2 million cubic metres in 2025 (See Table 3A).
The total value of roundwood removals was €238 million in 2025, a 1% increase on the €236 million figure in 2024 and a 6% decrease from the series high of €253 million in 2022 (See Table 1A).
Removals from privately-owned forests were 2.9 million cubic metres in 2025, accounting for 57% of the total removals volume (See Tables 1D and 1E).
Coniferous roundwood accounted for over 99% of removals in 2025 (See Table 1B).
Large sawlog accounted for the highest proportion of roundwood removals volume at 36% in 2025, followed by small sawlog (28%), and pulpwood (24%) (See Table 3A).
In the publicly-owned forest category, only removals of publicly-owned trees are included. See Background Notes for product definitions.
A link to the survey questionnaire is available in the Background Notes.
| Total Removals | Removals from publicly-owned forests | Removals from privately-owned forests | |
| 2015 | 3.312 | 2.235 | 1.077 |
| 2016 | 3.445 | 2.59 | 0.856 |
| 2017 | 3.698 | 2.592 | 1.106 |
| 2018 | 3.834 | 2.529 | 1.305 |
| 2019 | 4.007 | 2.72 | 1.288 |
| 2020 | 3.907 | 2.336 | 1.571 |
| 2021 | 4.332 | 2.235 | 2.098 |
| 2022 | 4.186 | 2.375 | 1.811 |
| 2023 | 4.269 | 2.447 | 1.822 |
| 2024 | 4.396 | 2.401 | 1.995 |
| 2025 | 5.199 | 2.252 | 2.947 |
| volume | |
| Large sawlog | 1865 |
| Small sawlog | 1443 |
| Stakewood | 311 |
| Pulpwood | 1269 |
| Fuelwood | 234 |
| Roundwood for use as biomass | 77 |
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (05 June 2025) published Forest Wood Removals 2025.
Commenting on the release, Niamh Shanahan, Statistician in the Environment Division, said: "In 2025, 5.2 million cubic metres of roundwood, which is wood in its natural state, was removed from Irish forests (See Table 1A). This was up 18% compared with 2024, when 4.4 million cubic metres were removed, and was the highest volume of roundwood removed across the 2015-2025 time series. The impact of Storm Éowyn in early 2025 likely impacted the increase of roundwood removed from Irish forests.
Privately-owned forests provided the majority of the wood, accounting for 57% of the total wood removed, with publicly-owned forests making up the rest at 43%. Compared with 2024, removals from public forests fell by 6%, while removals from private forests rose by 48% (See Figure 1, Tables 1D, and 1E). This was the first year in the time series where removals from private-forests were higher than removals from publicly-owned forests. Nearly all of the wood removed in 2025 (99%) came from coniferous trees (See Table 1B).
In 2025, the value of wood taken from forests was €238 million. This was 1% higher than the value of wood in 2024, in contrast to the 18% increase in volume of wood removed in 2025.
The highest product share of the wood removed in 2025 was large sawlogs (used in construction) at 36% of the total removals volume, followed by small sawlog at 28%, and pulpwood at 24% (See Figure 2 and Table 3A). These three categories together accounted for approximately 90% of all wood removed from Irish forests each year."