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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.
The King Oak is at least 400 years old and possibly up to 800 years old, with it being mentioned as an old tree in 17th-century records. [4] [5] The Irish Wildlife Trust has described the King Oak as one of the oldest trees in the country. [6] The tree is thought to be a descendant of the once widespread ancient oak forests of Ireland. [1]
The area is thought to have been wooded since the mid-Holocene [9] at the end of the last Ice Age, around 8,000 BC. [10]It is Ireland's last primeval river forest, [11] and is situated at the point where the River Lee emerges from the hills to broaden on alluvial ground. [4]
Killarney National Park (Irish: Páirc Náisiúnta Chill Airne), near the town of Killarney, County Kerry, was the first national park in Ireland, created when the Muckross Estate was donated to the Irish Free State in 1932. [1]
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 ...
During the Last Glacial Maximum, [5] (between about 26,000 and 20,000 years BP) ice sheets more than 3,000 m (9,800 ft) thick scoured the landscape of Ireland. By 24,000 years ago they extended beyond the southern coast of Ireland; but by 16,000 years ago the glaciers had retreated so that only an ice bridge remained between Ireland and Scotland.
Patrick indicates that during his escape from captivity, he had to travel 200 Roman miles (about 185 statute miles) to find a ship to take him to Britain, i.e., a ship on the east coast of Ireland. Additionally, the Killala area's modern climate , among the coldest and wettest in Ireland, meshes well with Patrick's description of performing ...
Crone Woods, also Crone Forest, is located in the northeastern section of the Wicklow Mountains, just below the summit of Maulin 570 metres (1,870 ft), in County Wicklow, Ireland. [1] Crone Woods have an extensive network of forest trails and hikes which can be accessed from the village of Enniskerry .