Banagher Tiles Ltd was established in 1949 by the Kenny family in Banagher, Co Offaly – manufacturing precast concrete roof tiles as an alternative to the traditional slate and clay tiles.

In 1965 James Kenny’s son Kieran established Bantile Ltd, Bantile pioneered the manufacturing of precast concrete units for system building. All over Ireland schools, hospitals, club houses and buildings were erected using the Bantile system. Columns, supports, floors and walls were all precast by Bantile offsite and then efficiently stitched together onsite.

During these times Kieran Kenny also founded another company, Concrete Structures Ltd Banagher, for the design and manufacture of precast concrete units, it was one of the first companies in Ireland with facilities for the production of prestressed floors and Bridge Beams. The company supplied bridge beams all over Ireland to civil engineering contacts while steadily expanding their precast product portfolio.

In 1973 oil prices quadrupled triggering a global recession and an inflation explosion, Bantile went into liquidation with the loss of 120 jobs with a major impact on the local community. Five former Bantile employees envisioned the opportunities and broad scope of precast concrete in the civil engineering sector, so together with a local businessman they pooled their redundancy cheques and savings to buy the existing factory and set up Banagher Concrete Ltd. The company continued to build their civil precast product portfolio and became the leading precast supplier to the civil engineering industry.

In 2010 after the property crash five existing employees who had grown up in the company stepped up and Banagher Precast Concrete Ltd was established as the result of a management buy-out. This young team of Directors are still leading the company today and are building on the success of those gone before them, advocating as always innovation, value engineering and client collaboration.

Today there are now over 240 people employed and the company is going from strength to strength. Every year Banagher Precast Concrete are recognised for outstanding achievements and contributions to the construction industry by the Irish & British Concrete Associations, for our innovations with precast and our ability to deliver largescale complex and often bespoke projects. Our ambition is to provide our clients with first-class customer service and the highest quality precast.

As a result of collaborating with UKPN to develop a carbon conscious solution to remove insitu works and speed up grid connections Banagher Precast Concrete has been developing a wide range of precast solutions to aid grid connections, Data Centre, BESS, Energy from Renewables and general civils projects. We now offer a wide range of bases for substations along with foundation strips, chambers, battery storage bases, cable troughs and link boxes. We also provide clients with bespoke solutions, get in touch with the team to find out more. #ChallengeUs