Started by three brothers, still run by them.
Hartstone began on a frost-cold morning in February 2009, on the gable end of a stone cottage in Bennettsbridge that was falling sideways. Mick, Dave and Conor had been on the tools since their teens — between them, sixty-odd years of brick, block and timber across half a dozen firms.
We were tired of the way the trade ran: crews swapped between sites mid-job, prices that wandered, certs that took months. So we set up our own yard, hired the lads we'd worked alongside for years, and made a rule we still keep: the same crew that breaks ground hands you the keys.
Sixteen years later, we're a team of eighteen. We've built one hundred and forty-plus projects across Kilkenny, Carlow, Wexford and Tipperary. We've never gone to court with a client, and we're not planning to start.
