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Nicest trees in Ireland?

  • 04-03-2010 5:51pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭


    Where are the nicest trees in Ireland? I mean real trees, like ancient oaks trees etc, not these bandy trees that sprout up everywhere.

    The best ones I've seen have usually been from north county Dublin up northwards towards the border counties.

    If I were a bird that's where I'd build my nest. What about you?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    capel street


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    qwert2 wrote: »
    Where are the nicest trees in Ireland? I mean real trees, like ancient oaks trees etc, not these bandy trees that sprout up everywhere.

    The best ones I've seen have usually been from north county Dublin up northwards towards the border counties.

    If I were a bird that's where I'd build my nest. What about you?

    Massies woods, up the Dublin mountains, near larch hill ;) Kick ass woods up around that area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭Azhrei


    What an odd thread...

    But to answer, my favourite place with trees would be Marlogue Wood in Cobh. Most of it was planted by my grandfather :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Great random questions we get here. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    Woodstock in Inistioge, Co Kilkenny IMO


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,224 ✭✭✭Bolag_the_2nd


    woodford, co galway, as the name suggests :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,109 ✭✭✭ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV


    killarney - muckross house is a huge area with amazing trees


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 188 ✭✭eddie the eagle


    avondale down in county wiclow, near rathdrum. Charles Stewart Parnell used to live there. i think he got all sorts of trees from around the world for the park


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    killarney - muckross house is a huge area with amazing trees

    +Infinity

    That place is heaven when the sun shines


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    avondale down in county wiclow, near rathdrum. Charles Stewart Parnell used to live there. i think he got all sorts of trees from around the world for the park

    Caoilte the Irish forestry department manages those I believe.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭BluesBerry


    http://www.treecouncil.ie/tree_register_of_ireland.htm

    I was talking to a man once and he was trying to put a database together of ancient trees in Ireland to try and protect them and logg them

    Im not sure if it is that link but its worth a look


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭filthymcnasty


    there is a proper selection of original irish broadleaf trees in along the strawberry beds near to lucan. a proper forest: horse chestnut, oak etc, not like those scrawny coillte xmas tree plantations u see in the mountains everywhere.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    BluesBerry wrote: »
    try and protect them and logg them

    Does not compute.

    This site has info on all the native tree and directions to some good specimans if ya wanna see them in the flesh Native Irish Trees
    http://www.gardenplansireland.com/forum/about69.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Keogg


    There's a huge beautiful old tree in St Catherines park in Leixlip that I love, although there are so many in the Phoenix Park that are amazing :) I love trees


  • Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The big ash tree in my parents garden.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    The woods around Tormakeady waterfall

    And the two Oaks I planted 1/1/2000, just need a little more time (at least 50 years)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Rowans. I think they're a kind of Ash.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,555 ✭✭✭Gillington


    Teresa Green.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Well I've tree trees in the garden, one of them is gradually being put through the stove!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    What's your favourite humming noise? Eh?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,840 ✭✭✭Luno


    Woodies DIY do some lovely timber floors....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    I've always admired the trees of Co. Tipperary!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    i know a girl with a lovely big full bush, she takes great care of it.does that count?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    woodford, co galway, as the name suggests :o

    Great town, I lived there for one year in the mid 90ies, the "bank" would open once a week, local cop use to drive an 80ies Ford Fiesta, the local "court" was a derelict building at the end of town, the place is still living in the 70ies. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Trinity College has some really nice trees, there was even a book written about them!
    https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~omahony/TreesofTrinityCollegeDublin.pdf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Gillington wrote: »
    Teresa Green.

    Is she tirty tree?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭Azhrei


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    What's your favourite humming noise? Eh?

    Is it mmmm? Or is it mmmmMMMMmmm?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 458 ✭✭fuelinjection


    Botanic Gardens in Galsnevin in Dublin I suppose.

    I read a newpaper article a few years ago about a Japanese Cherry Blossom (?) in the park in Dun Laoighaire. It was planted to mark the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. There was a Japanese painter living in Dublin and he found it by accident and painted it, said it was a very culturally important tree in Japan and he was stunned to find one growing in Ireland. Theres a sign beside it, think its just at the entrance by the main street corner.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    Yon mad "wishing tree" up on the hill of tara, except its just off the hill of tara... its a bit mad and nice!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Biggins wrote: »
    Great random questions we get here. :D

    Being in After Hours is like sitting on a Train with your mates that are reading newspapers or listening the radio on headphones.

    Every now and then:

    Mate with headphones: "Oh man, this song take me back, listen.."
    Mate with the horn staring at female passangers: "Would you have sex on a train.."
    Mate staring out window: "Where has the nicest trees in Ireland.."
    Mate with paper: "Jesus, wait till you hear this, fcuking Bertie won ten fcuking grand the jammy bastard.."
    Stranger: 'Do you wanna kick in the face?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Being in After Hours is like sitting on a Train with your mates that are reading newspapers or listening the radio on headphones.

    I was thinking that on that train this morning. I always seem to see a lot more loons on the train than anywhere else. It's almost like its a hangout spot for them. The same is true of AH. :pac:


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That's the problem with loons, they don't stay in one place.


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