Walshestown Restoration

What Walshestown Restoration does

Walshestown Restoration Ltd operates Ireland's first dedicated soil recovery facility, located on a 100-acre former sand and gravel quarry in Blackhall, Naas, County Kildare. The company accepts construction and demolition waste, including non-hazardous excavated soils, mixed C&D waste, dredging spoil, and filter media from water treatment plants, and processes it through a high-capacity wash plant that separates inputs into reusable stone, sand, and silt or clay fractions. Processing combines magnets, blowers, floatation, and a manual picking station for contaminant removal, with a closed-loop water system that recycles process water. The facility is EPA-licensed under Waste Licence W0254-01 to accept up to 330,000 tonnes per year, and the company provides full traceability and certificates of recovery for every load handled. Ancillary services include land reclamation, expert waste materials consultation, and educational school tours supporting the Department of Foreign Affairs Waste Action Plan.

The company's primary customers are major construction contractors operating in Ireland, including Duggan, Ganson, JJ Rhatigan, John-Paul, John Sisk, Monami, Murphy, Hegarty, and Walls, all of which are listed as named reclamation and recovery partners. Revenue is generated through two streams: per-tonne processing fees for accepting C&D waste and transactions on the sale of recovered aggregates back into the construction supply chain. The majority of materials are sourced from Dublin and the greater Leinster region, where the company's Kildare location provides efficient haulage economics. Materials accepted grew from 200,000 tonnes in 2018 to 330,000 tonnes in 2021, indicating strong operating momentum up to the facility's current licensed capacity. A pending EPA end-of-waste licence for sand and pebble is expected to widen the addressable market for recovered material sales.

The company was co-founded by Mervyn Ross and Patrick Meade, who bring extensive experience from the mining, quarrying, and waste sectors. In late 2024, Walshestown Restoration was acquired by Enva, a multi-service environmental services company, as part of Enva's expansion of its soil recovery business. The facility continues to operate under the Walshestown Restoration brand within the Enva group.

Name

Walshestown Restoration

Legal name

Walshestown Restoration Ltd

Website

https://walshestown.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Acquired

Short description

Walshestown Restoration Ltd operates Ireland's first dedicated soil recovery facility, processing up to 330,000 tonnes per year of construction and demolition waste into reusable sand, gravel, and aggregates for Irish construction contractors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Construction Waste Recycling

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Concrete, Asphalt & Masonry Recycling (Crushing & Aggregate Production) (EUAIAHAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Ex-Situ Treatment & Soil Washing / Stabilization (BPALAKAE)

Keywords

• Soil recovery services
• Construction waste processing
• Land reclamation services
• Aggregate recycling
• Circular economy materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Naas

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Soil Recovery Processing Services: Walshestown accepts construction and demolition waste materials and processes them through their washing plant to recover reusable sand, gravel, and aggregates. Revenue is generated through processing fees paid by construction companies seeking to divert waste from landfill and obtain recovered materials.
2. Material Sales: Recovered materials including stone, sand, and silt/clay are sold back to construction industry or retained for land reclamation projects. Pending EPA end-of-waste licence for sand and pebble will enable broader reintroduction to construction supply chain.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Walshestown Restoration operates Ireland's first soil recovery facility, accepting construction and demolition waste materials and processing them through a high-capacity wash plant to recover reusable stone, sand, and silt/clay. The recovered aggregates are reintroduced into construction supply chains, supported by EPA licensing, closed-loop water recycling, and full material traceability certificates. The company also provides land reclamation services for worked-out quarries and waste materials consultation for the Irish construction industry.

Product overview

Walshestown Restoration operates as Ireland's first soil recovery facility dedicated to the reclamation of sand and gravel from excavated materials. The company's primary offering is its soil recovery service, centered on a high-capacity wash plant that processes construction and demolition waste to recover stone, sand, and silt for reintroduction into construction supply chains. Supporting services include land reclamation for restoring disused quarries, waste materials consultation with expert staff, educational school coach tours, and circular economy advocacy. All operations are conducted at their 100-acre Co. Kildare site with EPA licensing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Materials accepted grew from 200,000 tonnes (2018) to 330,000 tonnes (2021)
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• EnvacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Enva, an environmental services company, acquired Walshestown Restoration Limited in late 2024 as part of Enva's expansion of its soil recovery business. Walshestown is now part of the Enva family, continuing operations as Ireland's first soil recovery facility for sand and gravel reclamation from excavated materials.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Thorntons Recycling: Ireland-based C&D and commercial waste recycler operating materials recovery facilities processing construction waste into reusable aggregates. Directly comparable to Walshestown in target market (Irish construction), service offering (C&D recovery), and processing technology.
• Hills Group: UK family-owned waste and recycling group operating C&D materials recovery facilities producing recycled aggregates. Comparable to Walshestown in business model (waste intake to recovered aggregate), geographic context (UK regulatory environment), and contractor customer base.
• Brewster Bros: Scotland-based C&D waste recycler operating wash plants to recover sand, gravel, and crushed aggregates from construction waste. Comparable to Walshestown in core technology (wash plant processing), regulatory environment (UK environmental permitting), and recovered-aggregate product mix.
• Powerday: UK C&D waste recycler operating wash plants and materials recovery facilities that produce recycled aggregates for the construction sector. Highly comparable to Walshestown in process (soil washing, contaminant removal), output (recovered sand, gravel, aggregates), and customer base (major contractors).

Broad incumbents

• Panda Waste: Ireland-focused waste and recycling business servicing households, commercial, and construction customers. Comparable in serving Irish construction contractors and operating material recovery infrastructure in the same regulatory environment (EPA licensing).
• Biffa: UK-based waste management company with significant C&D recycling, aggregate production, and materials recovery operations. Comparable in business model (waste-to-aggregate processing) and customer base (major contractors), though operating at far greater scale across the UK.
• Veolia Ireland: Irish arm of global environmental services giant providing waste collection, treatment, and resource recovery. Operates competing waste and recycling infrastructure in the same Irish geography and serves many of the same Tier-1 construction clients as Walshestown.
• Enva: Parent company and broader UK/Ireland environmental services platform offering waste collection, recycling, and resource recovery across multiple categories. Enva now operates Walshestown as its soil-recovery centre, and its portfolio of hazardous-waste and recycling capabilities is directly comparable in customer base and waste-stream handling.
• Tarmac: UK's largest aggregate and construction materials producer with quarries and recycling operations producing both primary and recycled aggregates. Comparable in customer overlap (major UK/Ireland contractors), aggregate product portfolio, and competition for virgin-aggregate substitution by recycled product.
• FCC Environment Ireland: Ireland's largest home-grown waste management operator offering municipal, commercial, and C&D waste services. Comparable in customer overlap (large Irish construction contractors) and in processing of construction-derived waste streams into recovered materials.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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