Jackie Cahill
Question:476. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of agricultural land in each county that has been planted with forestry to date, in tabular form. [2370/19]
View answerDáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 January 2019
476. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of agricultural land in each county that has been planted with forestry to date, in tabular form. [2370/19]
View answerI refer the Deputy to his question raised last October, (41679/18 – Dáil Question No 153), in which he requested the same data.
The area of land afforested in each county is indicated in the table below, which is taken from the third NFI. The area of forest is estimated to be 770,020 ha or 11% of the total land area of Ireland (NFI 2017).
County |
% Area |
Carlow |
9.4 |
Cavan |
9.3 |
Clare |
17.2 |
Cork |
12.1 |
Donegal |
11.4 |
Dublin |
6.5 |
Galway |
9.9 |
Kerry |
12.1 |
Kildare |
6.1 |
Kilkenny |
9.6 |
Laois |
15.4 |
Leitrim |
18.9 |
Limerick |
10.4 |
Longford |
8.4 |
Louth |
2.9 |
Mayo |
9.2 |
Meath |
5.7 |
Monaghan |
4.6 |
Offaly |
14.7 |
Roscommon |
11.1 |
Sligo |
11.4 |
Tipperary |
11.8 |
Waterford |
14.7 |
Westmeath |
8.2 |
Wexford |
6.2 |
Wicklow |
17.9 |