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The area of national forest estate in Ireland has increased to approximately 700,000 hectares as a result of a significant increase in private forest development in the mid-1980s, with the introduction of grant schemes funded by the EU aimed at encouraging private land owners, mainly farmers, to become involved in forestry.
Today, the Celtic Rainforest exists as small fragments of the temperate rainforest that once covered much of Ireland and the west coast of Great Britain. The majority of these fragments occur on steep-sided slopes above rivers and lakes which have avoided clearance and intensive grazing pressure.
The Gearagh (Irish: An Gaorthadh) [2] is a submerged glacial woodland and nature reserve two kilometres southwest of Macroom, County Cork, in Kilmichael parish, Ireland. It is located at the point where the River Lee descends from the mountains and widens at an alluvial plain, and stretches for roughly five kilometres, bounded by the townlands ...
Banagher Glen is a nature reserve and forest park south of Dungiven in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.. It has been a National Nature Reserve since 1974 and is one of the largest and oldest ancient oak and ash woodlands in Ireland. [1]
Descended from the ancient oak forests that were once commonplace in Ireland, the tree is estimated to be around 400 to 800 years old. The King Oak has been heavily pollarded and is a large tree, with a trunk of 8.29 metres (9.07 yd) girth and some of the lower branches extending as far as 27 metres (30 yd).
Tomnafinnoge Woods (Irish: Coillte Tom na Feannóige [1]) is the last surviving fragment of the great Oak Woods of Tinahely, which once clothed the hills and valleys of south Wicklow, Ireland. As early as 1444 these woods supplied timber for the construction of King's College, Cambridge , and later for Westminster Abbey , St Patrick's Cathedral ...
1.1.1 Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests. 2 Freshwater ecoregions. ... The following is a list of ecoregions in Ireland as identified by the World Wide Fund for ...
Rosturra Wood (Irish: Coill Ros Dora) [1] is a national nature reserve and Special Area of Conservation of approximately 44 acres (0.18 km 2) located near Woodford, County Galway, Ireland. It is managed by the Irish National Parks & Wildlife Service .